# Very simple Xlib-based client in Python. # Copyright (c) 2008 Thomas Thurman ; GPL 2.0 or later. # Originally based around example code in python-xlib # by Peter Liljenberg . import sys from Xlib import X from Xlib.protocol import display from Xlib.protocol.request import * display = display.Display() screen = display.info.roots[display.default_screen] window = display.allocate_resource_id() gc = display.allocate_resource_id() CreateWindow(display, None, depth = screen.root_depth, wid = window, parent = screen.root, x = 100, y = 100, width = 250, height = 250, border_width = 2, window_class = X.InputOutput, visual = X.CopyFromParent, background_pixel = screen.white_pixel, event_mask = (X.ExposureMask | X.StructureNotifyMask | X.ButtonPressMask | X.ButtonReleaseMask | X.Button1MotionMask), colormap = X.CopyFromParent) CreateGC(display, None, gc, window) MapWindow(display, None, window) while 1: event = display.next_event() if event.type == X.DestroyNotify: sys.exit(0) print event