ruby-x11

My X11 window manager is pure Ruby: https://github.com/vidarh/rubywm That was posted to HN a while back. It's a minimalist tiling wm. My file manager is (very simplistic, I do most of my actual file management from the shell - it's in effect mostly a desktop launcher) Ruby It, as well as my desktop switcher (also Ruby) depends on pure Ruby X11 bindings, and a pure Ruby TrueType font renderer: https://github.com/vidarh/skrift https://github.com/vidarh/skrift-x11 https://github.com/vidarh/ruby-x11 So does my Ruby terminal (what's on Github is nothing like the full version, which I will package up and push one of these days). My editor is also pure Ruby, using Rouge (Ruby; not mine) for syntax highlighting. That also needs a major update on Github - what's there probably won't even run for others because my personal "ecosystem" on my

As you can see if you dig into my code and then look at the X protocol implementation [1], the (incomplete) pure Ruby X11 binding takes up more lines of code than the WM. I was tempted to write the code to generate it from the XML spec, but a lot of the scaffolding for the current X11 binding predated my own work and it seemed like it'd be more and more painful work to write the generator than bite the bullet and do it manually (I don't expect to/care about supporting the whole protocol anyway). So a PHP version would be totally viable, just tedious. [1] https://github.com/vidarh/ruby-x11