sidorares/react-x11

React renderer with X11 as a target

Stars: 258
Forks: 18
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 18
Avg merge: 4h 10m
Merged PRs (30d): 199

Dominant language: JavaScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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18 open issues indexed

Permission requests: macOS TCC and the freedesktop device portals Open

desktop-integration enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

sidorares/react-x11#466 · Opened Sep 5, 2026
desktop notifications, and StatusNotifierItem: standards with a claim on core Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

sidorares/react-x11#353 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
testing: createMockApp({ fonts }) — real text metrics on the mock backend Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

sidorares/react-x11#319 · Opened Aug 15, 2026
createRoot({ embedInto }): the plug side of XEmbed — render a root into someone else's window Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

sidorares/react-x11#316 · Opened Aug 15, 2026
Keep override-redirect popups above their owner: VisibilityNotify-driven raise Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

sidorares/react-x11#299 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
devtools: turning a session on when you need one, and a frontend of our own Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

sidorares/react-x11#297 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Text input is one keypress, one codepoint: no dead keys, no Compose, no preedit, no IME Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

sidorares/react-x11#272 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 11, 2026
testing: text queries are blind to registered elements — a textContent protocol instead of a kind allowlist Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

sidorares/react-x11#260 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Types narrower than the runtime: `theme` on non-window elements, `@supports transparency`, and ntk's `cssColorStraight` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

sidorares/react-x11#239 · Opened Aug 9, 2026
perf: rounded boxes as glyph runs — corners as cached a8 glyphs, straight runs as FillRectangles Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

sidorares/react-x11#219 · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Two roots on one borrowed app collide on the handler-error override, and unmount does not restore it Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

sidorares/react-x11#204 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
perf: efficient on every server — flip glamor-hostile defaults, expose ntk's render policies, document the escape hatches Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

sidorares/react-x11#190 · Opened Aug 2, 2026
perf: round trips on configure and drag paths — lazy screen-origin refresh, XDND target cache Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

sidorares/react-x11#189 · Opened Aug 2, 2026
research: icons as glyphs — inline SVG icons through the glyph-run machinery (parked) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

sidorares/react-x11#150 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
`@react-x11/desktop` step 2 — the portal floor: activation-aware `hasService()` and the `Request` helper Open

desktop-integration enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

sidorares/react-x11#129 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 31, 2026
react-x11/offscreen: renderToPNG with no X server — the code already exists in scripts/ Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

sidorares/react-x11#124 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
The hand-written .d.ts files have drifted from the implementation Open

bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

sidorares/react-x11#120 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
sans-serif resolves to a CJK font on macOS: wrong font everywhere, visible as broken Cyrillic spacing Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

sidorares/react-x11#86 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 29, 2026

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