From 7c457902864fd3e54832dd22bf33f324b6ec3cdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Irene Knapp <ireneista@irenes.space>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:36:19 -0700
Subject: draw text

this uses Xft, which unfortunately has a lot of parallel tooling

it needs some refactoring into its own files, but it works :)

Change-Id: I0e78ea69167b1d91af2e9f494d757564d8cb7cdb
Force-Push: yes
---
 src/x/connection.rs | 10 ++++++----
 src/x/display.rs    |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/x')

diff --git a/src/x/connection.rs b/src/x/connection.rs
index d9ed9ca..78e721d 100644
--- a/src/x/connection.rs
+++ b/src/x/connection.rs
@@ -7,11 +7,9 @@ use xcb::x::{ Atom, InternAtom };
 pub struct Connection(xcb::Connection);
 
 impl Connection {
-  pub fn connect(display_name: Option<&str>)
-    -> xcb::ConnResult<(Connection, i32)>
-  {
+  pub fn connect() -> xcb::ConnResult<(Connection, i32)> {
     let (connection, screen_index)
-        = xcb::Connection::connect(display_name)?;
+        = xcb::Connection::connect_with_xlib_display()?;
 
     Ok((Connection(connection), screen_index))
   }
@@ -91,6 +89,10 @@ pub trait ConnectionExt: HasConnection {
       wm_strut, wm_strut_partial,
     })
   }
+
+  fn get_xlib_display(&self) -> *mut x11::xlib::Display {
+    self.connection().0.get_raw_dpy()
+  }
 }
 
 impl<T: HasConnection> ConnectionExt for T { }
diff --git a/src/x/display.rs b/src/x/display.rs
index ca552db..7aa7e2e 100644
--- a/src/x/display.rs
+++ b/src/x/display.rs
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ impl HasConnection for Arc<Display> {
 
 impl Display {
   pub fn new() -> xcb::Result<Display> {
-    let (connection, screen_index) = Connection::connect(None)?;
+    let (connection, screen_index) = Connection::connect()?;
 
     let atoms = connection.get_atoms()?;
 
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