X11 VS OpenGL

Compare X11 vs OpenGL and see what are their differences.

X11

A Haskell binding to the X11 graphics library. (by xmonad)

OpenGL

Haskell bindings to OpenGL (by haskell-opengl)
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X11 OpenGL
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104 144
1.0% 1.4%
6.8 2.5
7 days ago 3 months ago
Haskell Haskell
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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X11

Posts with mentions or reviews of X11. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-11.
  • Minimize(d) windows: list, open from list, open all
    6 projects | /r/xmonad | 11 Oct 2021
    The instructions on https://github.com/xmonad/X11 seem fairly straightforward, so I could update. But dealing with this library is not something I remember ever doing explicitly and is not mentioned (explicitly, at least) in the instructions have followed lately for (re)installing XMonad via stack (e.g., https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/blob/master/INSTALL.md, https://github.com/slotThe/xmonad/blob/new-tutorial/INSTALL.md or https://brianbuccola.com/how-to-install-xmonad-and-xmobar-via-stack/). In fact, for Debian systems all that is suggested is an apt install of several packages. So I'd rather not try this experiment on my own right now since, in the past, I've sometimes been left with a mess that took me a while to get out from.
  • Problems setting up dual monitor workspaces in xmonad
    1 project | /r/xmonad | 25 Apr 2021
    Looks like your xmonad (or, more specifically, https://hackage.haskell.org/package/X11) is built without xinerama. Check if you have libxinerama-dev and then make sure X11 and xmonad are rebuilt.

OpenGL

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenGL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning OpenGL yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing X11 and OpenGL you can also consider the following projects:

wayland - Core Wayland protocol and libraries (mirror)

matplotlib - Haskell bindings for Python's Matplotlib

x11-xim - haskell library to use xim

gloss - Painless 2D vector graphics, animations and simulations.

freetype2 - My personal branch of the freetype2 source code

reanimate - Haskell library for building declarative animations based on SVG graphics

clay - A CSS preprocessor as embedded Haskell.

imagemagick - haskell imagemagick bindings

plot-light - A lightweight plotting library, exporting to SVG

diagrams-cairo - Cairo backend for diagrams

free-game - The free game engine

linux-framebuffer