so, I have an idea for writing my own X11 window manager, so I'm returning to something I haven't touched in a long while, and that's old-fashioned XLib programming

and I'm sort of remembering just how awful and fiddly it is, and getting discouraged. I also poked at the XCB API but it's so poorly documented that I don't want to bother with it, I don't think

I don't suppose there's an easier way?

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