### Xlib/XCB: Xlib with XCB transport

Our experience with [[XCL|History]] convinced us that significant wins were available in providing a library at once binary-compatible with Xlib and built atop XCB. Our second, much more successful attempt at achieving this goal was to rip much of the insides out of stock Xlib and replace it with calls into XCB (and some XCL) code. The result is Xlib/XCB, a library that allows existing application binaries linked against Xlib to run unmodified, allows new applications to [[mix_calls|MixingCalls]] to XCB and Xlib (providing an incremental porting path), and achieves significant savings over stock Xlib in size and complexity.