XILISTPROPERTIES(3)

💖 XILISTPROPERTIES 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the XILISTPROPERTIES(3) manual page — yes it's from the X11 input extension crew and no it is not scary, i promise 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

XIListProperties — literally just lists a device's properties. that's it. that's the whole job. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <X11/extensions/XInput2.h>

Atom* XListProperties( Display *display,
                       int deviceid,
                       int *nprops_return);

• display — the connection to the X server, your lil link to the whole situation 🔌
• deviceid — the device you wanna list the properties for, bestie 🎯
• nprops_return — this one tells you the number of Atoms returned, like a lil receipt of how many you got 🧾

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the XIListProperties function returns a list of the properties that are attached to the input device you specified with deviceid. And here's the tea: each device can have an arbitrary number of properties attached to it — some of them were created by the driver and/or server, and others were created by clients at runtime. so yeah, it's a whole mixed bag 👑

The client is expected to free the list of properties using XFree. do not forget this, bestie, that's your responsibility, not the server's 😭

Also XIListProperties can generate a BadDevice error. keep that in mind ✨

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💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

• BadDevice — an invalid device was specified. the device does not exist. it's giving ghost device fr fr 👻

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• XIChangeProperty(3)
• XIGetProperty(3)
• XIDeleteProperty(3)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this iconic lil manual is XILISTPROPERTIES(3) and it's dated 05/18/2026. go slay your property-listing era 💅✨🎀🦋