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First, you open a port to $DISPLAY... xlib is quite a pleasure to use though, and it probably doesn't qualify as a "framework" that you don't want to use.

• bitwize 5y ago
  X is deprecated and virtually abandonware at this point, so... username checks out.
  • badsectoracula 5y ago
    Xorg open source and open source software doesn't become 'abandonware'.
    • bitwize 5y ago
      Sure they do, once nobody develops for them anymore, which is almost the case for X11. Nobody wants to touch that moldy old code base. There's somebody keeping the lights on I guess, but for all intents and purposes, ALL of the developer effort is on Wayland now. Wayland will catch up with and surpass X.
      • badsectoracula 5y ago
        People do develop Xorg (X11 is the protocol, Xorg is the software) and as long as there is at least one person "keeping the lights on" it will be developed. Hell, even if every single programmer on earth stops working on the codebase, it can still be resurrected at some point later if someone decides to work on. Open source software is resilient to 'death' and 'abandonment' issues plaguing closed source software. I'm writing this as someone who is using a window manager (Window Maker) whose original developers abandoned it for years, then someone else picked it up some years ago to continue development and i personally have contributed bug fixes and features to it years after both of those. OSS doesn't die for as long as there is someone out there who is interested on it.