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XkbGetKeyboard(3)                XKB FUNCTIONS               XkbGetKeyboard(3)

NAME

XkbGetKeyboard - Retrieves one or more components of a keyboard device description

SYNOPSIS

XkbDescPtr XkbGetKeyboard (Display *display, unsigned int which, unsigned int device_spec);

ARGUMENTS

display connection to the X server device_spec device ID, or XkbUseCoreKbd bits_to_change determines events to be selected / deselected values_for_bits 1=>select, 0->deselect; for events in bits_to_change

DESCRIPTION

XkbGetKeyboard allocates and returns a pointer to a keyboard description. It queries the server for those components specified in the which parameter for device device_spec and copies the results to the XkbDescRec it allocated. The remaining fields in the keyboard description are set to NULL. The valid masks for which are those listed in Table 1. Table 1 Mask Bits for XkbDescRec -------------------------------------------------- Mask Bit XkbDescRec Field Value -------------------------------------------------- XkbControlsMask ctrls (1L<<0) XkbServerMapMask server (1L<<1) XkbIClientMapMask map (1L<<2) XkbIndicatorMapMask indicators (1L<<3) XkbNamesMask names (1L<<4) XkbCompatMapMask compat (1L<<5) XkbGeometryMask geom (1L<<6) XkbAllComponentsMask All Fields (1L<<7) XkbGetKeyboard is used to read the current description for one or more components of a keyboard device. It calls XkbGetKeyboardByName(3) as follows: XkbGetKeyboardByName(dpy, device_spec, NULL, which, which, False). If successful, XkbGetKeyboard returns a pointer to a newly allocated XkbDescRec structure, which is described in XkbGetKeyboardByName(3), and which should be freed with XkbFreeKeyboard(3). If XkbGetKeyboard does not succeed, it returns NULL.

DIAGNOSTICS

BadAlloc Unable to allocate storage

SEE ALSO

XkbGetKeyboardByName(3) X Version 11 libX11 1.8.6 XkbGetKeyboard(3)

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