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Re: xlib binding
- To: Greg Badros <gjb at cs dot washington dot edu>
- Subject: Re: xlib binding
- From: Stephen Tse <stephent at sfu dot ca>
- Date: 24 Sep 1999 15:49:11 -0700
- Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <87so444v7w.fsf@cr610941-a.rct1.bc.wave.home.com> <qrrpuz82sj1.fsf@elwha.cs.washington.edu>
Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu> writes:
> > Is there any guile xlib binding, similiar to that in elk? Anyone
> > working on one?
> >
> > Anyone would like comment on the inherited inefficiency of xlib scheme
> > binding?
>
> The guile-gtk gdk module gives roughly that functionality (i.e., it's
> pretty low level) but isn't a direct Xlib wrapper.
I want to play with low level xlib like tasks of window managers. I
want to do in scheme such that I do them interactively.
Are there any particular reasons why you chose guile over elk for
scwm? Except being _the_ GNU?