Top 18 C Xlib Projects

• berry

  4 998 0.0 C

  :strawberry: A healthy, byte-sized window manager (by JLErvin)

• sowm

  20 893 0.0 C

  Discontinued An itsy bitsy floating window manager (220~ sloc!).

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• alttab

  13 378 5.6 C

  The task switcher for minimalistic window managers or standalone X11 session

• xmenu

  14 288 7.3 C

  a x11 menu utility

Project mention: Bash Menu | /r/archlinux | 2023-05-25

• pmenu

  9 205 6.3 C

  A pie-menu in xlib and imlib2.

• shod

  5 164 8.2 C

  mouse-based window manager that can tile windows inside floating containers

• xnotify

  4 157 5.1 C

  read notifications from stdin and pop them up on the screen

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• xprompt

  4 97 0.0 C

  A dmenu rip-off with contextual completion

• xfiles

  5 92 8.4 C

  Configurable and simple file manager for X11

Project mention: Suckless file manager? | /r/suckless | 2023-10-27

GUI: xfiles, written in C, very lightweight but immensely powerfull (and has support for drag-and-drop)

• xclickroot

  2 84 5.0 C

  click on root window and run a command

• RGFW

  4 71 9.6 C

  A multi-platform single-header very simple-to-use framework library for creating GUI Libraries or simple GUI programs.

Project mention: RGFW: Simple, multi-platform single-header C framework for GUI library, programs | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-24

• RSGL

  2 37 9.6 C

  A simple-to-use modular, cross-platform software development and GUI library. It combines the freedom of lower-level GUI libraries with modern C techniques, offering both simplicity and convenience.

Project mention: RSGL | Modular header-only cross-platform GUI Library for easily creating GUI software your way! | dev.to | 2024-02-25

The RSGL Repo can be found at : https://github.com/ColleagueRiley/RSGL

• devoidwm

  2 28 0.0 C

  A simple X11 window manager

• swcursor

  1 24 0.0 C

  Large software cursor for screen recording on X11

• 91menu

  1 14 2.6 C

  A Plan9-inspired, mouse-oriented, graphical menu, which works with the standard input.

• recordmydesktop

  2 13 4.6 C

  Fork of recordMyDesktop X Window System desktop recording abandonware, much bug fixing and general cleanups/rewriting has been done. (by recordmydesktop)

  

Project mention: Disk write buffering and its interactions with write flushes | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-22

One of the things I improved in my recordMyDesktop fork [0] was an awful tendency for the frame cache writer to accumulate heaps of dirty pages until background writeback would flush them out.

I had 16GiB of RAM which meant quite large swaths of dirty pages would become buffered while the SSD sat idle until writeback began. This would cause high-FPS full-screen recordings in particular to just become backlogged and start dropping frames / audio dropouts. Just generally broken behavior for a desktop recorder, especially for a defferred-encode mode that's supposed to be optimized for minimizing system-wide effects/overheads during the recording.

The simple solution I found was to proactively initiate writeback regularly via fdatasync() on the cache fd. [1] I haven't decided yet if more should be done to constrain its buffer cache effects though. The cache files will be read back during encoding in post, so if there's enough RAM it can be desirable to enable reading them back entirely from memory instead of having to hit the disks again... but it would also be nice to let the rest of the system's processes keep their stuff in the page cache. memcg can probably be used to find a balanced solution, but I haven't done any experiments yet. Have any of you handled similar scenarios? What did you do?

[0] https://github.com/recordmydesktop/recordmydesktop

[1] https://github.com/recordmydesktop/recordmydesktop/commit/42...

• mpdart

  1 8 0.0 C

  A simple X application that shows mpd album art. Mirror of https://git.depsterr.com/mpdart

• xfocusnotify

  3 8 1.7 C

  X11-tool which exits when a window is focused and prints the respective window-id.

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com sponsored

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

C Xlib related posts

• Suckless file manager?
  1 project | /r/suckless | 27 Oct 2023
• I rewrote my UNIX/X11 File Manager from scratch: code is simpler; threaded thumbnailing; alpha compositing with XRender; etc
  1 project | /r/C_Programming | 29 Mar 2023
• BeeRef – a free opens-source simple reference image viewer
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2023
• XFCE live usb(i686) is using almost 200mb of memory on boot?
  1 project | /r/voidlinux | 15 Feb 2023
• [OC] XFiles: A modular X11 file browser (WIP)
  4 projects | /r/linux | 4 Jan 2023
• Playing around with 'Video Wallpaper' & 'xwinwrap + gifview', just a 'demo mode' for my own learning. Together they use close to 15% of my (old Phenom II 1100T) cpu. The screen recorder used much more.
  2 projects | /r/linuxmint | 29 Dec 2022
• "Weapon wheel" for X11 - alternative to rofi
  1 project | /r/i3wm | 19 Nov 2022
• A note from our sponsor - WorkOS
  workos.com | 26 Apr 2024

  The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning. Learn more →

Index

Sponsored

SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews

SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

www.saashub.com

Do not miss the trending C projects with our weekly report!