The XCB util modules provides a number of libraries which sit on top of libxcb, the core X protocol library, and some of the extension libraries. These experimental libraries provide convenience functions and interfaces which make the raw X protocol more usable. Some of the libraries also provide client-side code which is not strictly part of the X protocol but which have traditionally been provided by Xlib.

If you find any of these libraries useful, please let us know what you're using and why you aren't in a mental hospital yet. We'd welcome patches/suggestions for enhancement and new libraries; Please report any issues you find to the freedesktop.org bug tracker, at:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxcb-wm/issues

Discussion about XCB occurs on the XCB mailing list:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xcb

XCB util-wm module provides the following libraries:

• ewmh: Both client and window-manager helpers for EWMH.
• icccm: Both client and window-manager helpers for ICCCM.

You can obtain the latest development versions of XCB using GIT from:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxcb-wm

For anonymous checkouts, use:

git clone --recursive https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxcb-wm.git

For developers, use:

git clone --recursive [email protected]:xorg/lib/libxcb-wm.git