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+xgbutil is a utility library designed to work with the X Go Binding. This
+project's main goal is to make various X related tasks easier. For example,
+binding keys, using the EWMH or ICCCM specs with the window manager,
+moving/resizing windows, assigning function callbacks to particular events,
+drawing images to a window, etc.
+
+xgbutil attempts to be thread safe, but it has not been completely tested in
+this regard. In general, the X event loop implemented in the xevent package is
+sequential. The idea is to be sequential by default, and let the user spawn
+concurrent code at their discretion. (i.e., the complexity of making the main
+event loop generally concurrent is vast.)
+
+You may sleep safely at night by assuming that XGB is thread safe, though.
+
+To start using xgbutil, you should have at least a passing familiarity with X.
+Your first stop should be the examples directory.
+
+Installation
+============
+go get github.com/BurntSushi/xgbutil
+
+Dependencies
+============
+XGB is the main dependency. Use of the xgraphics packages requires graphics-go
+and freetype-go.
+
+XGB project URL: https://github.com/BurntSushi/xgb
+
+Quick Example
+=============
+go get github.com/BurntSushi/xgbutil/_examples/window-name-sizes
+"$GOPATH"/bin/window-name-sizes
+
+The output will be a list of names of all top-level windows and their geometry
+including window manager decorations. (Assuming your window manager supports
+some basic EWMH properties.)
+
+Documentation
+=============
+https://godoc.org/github.com/BurntSushi/xgbutil
+
+Examples
+========
+There are several examples in the examples directory covering common use cases.
+They are heavily documented and should run out of the box.
+
+Python
+======
+An older project of mine, xpybutil, served as inspiration for xgbutil. If you
+want to use Python, xpybutil should help quite a bit. Please note though, that
+at this point, xgbutil provides a lot more functionality and is much better
+documented.
+
+xpybutil project URL: https://github.com/BurntSushi/xpybutil
+