vidarh/ruby-x11

Pure Ruby implementation of the X Window System Protocol

5 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2023-11-11 · latest 2026-07-17

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Vidar wrote one in pure Ruby. https://github.com/vidarh/ruby-x11
comment by vinceguidry · 2026-07-17 · in Frame – Linux X server in Assembly
…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…
comment by vidarh · 2024-08-22 · in Transformers for Ruby
…supporting the whole protocol anyway). So a PHP version would be totally viable, just tedious. [1] https://github.com/vidarh/ruby-x11
comment by vidarh · 2024-01-22 · in RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby
…form and significant overhaul of pure X11 client bindings for Ruby (as in not Xlib or XCB needed): https://github.com/vidarh/ruby-x11 - it's not terribly out of date, but it's a bit in flux as I don't like the initial mechanism, used for…
comment by vidarh · 2023-12-19 · in I Love Ruby
…at some point. The current version uses this for a pure Ruby (no Xlib) X11 client implementation: https://github.com/vidarh/ruby-x11 And this pure-Ruby TrueType font renderer (I did the Ruby conversion; the C code it's based on was not…
comment by vidarh · 2023-11-11 · in Write your own terminal