xshim

xshim is a lightweight wrapper for Xorg, (hopefully) making X sessions as easy to start as wayland ones. As display managers begin to drop native support for Xorg, xshim can be used as a polyfill.

xshim replaces: startx, xinit, xorg-rootless wrapper¹, xauth, mcookie

xshim is also available as a library. Any rust-based session manager can use it to support X sessions. Just call libxshim::xorg_new_default().spawn()!

xshim is not:

• A complete display manager.
• An implementation/extension of X11 protocol.
• A bridge between X11 and wayland (for that, see wayback, xwayland).

todo

• Examples of use
• Xinit compatibility mode
• Systemd integration
• Parsing of Xorg logs into journald format
• Library mode
• Async (CLI)
• XResources support

features

library:

• client: makes your app an Xorg client after setup

cli:

• dbus: required to import systemd-user environment
• xrdb (WIP): loads Xresources

Footnotes

1. this is subject to change ↩