KWin, KDE’s window manager, in version 4.11 is moving along with being ported to using XCB rather than Xlib.
Back in November I wrote that KWin was being ported to XCB and that with the KDE 4.10 feature window closing that this was a candidate for merging. Besides moving from Xlib to XCB, other KWin action items for the 4.11 window are AppMenu support, color correction work, performance improvements in compositing environments, improving window decorations, and…Read more at Phoronix
