XkbGetState(3)

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version 1.8.14 · 8 versions
, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

okay bestie, welcome to XkbGetState(3) from the XKB FUNCTIONS manual — we're grabbing the keyboard state and it's giving main character energy 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

XkbGetState — obtains the keyboard state 🎹✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

Status XkbGetState (Display *display, unsigned int device_spec,
       XkbStatePtr state_return);

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • display — connection to the X server, aka your lil chat line to the server 💖
  • device_spec — device ID, or XkbUseCoreKbd 🫶
  • state_return — backfilled with Xkb state; this is where the answer lands ✨

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so XkbGetState queries the server for the current keyboard state, waits for a reply, and then backfills state_return with the results. no cap, that's the flow 🦋

All group values are expressed as group indices in the range [0..3] — yes bestie, that exact range 👑

Modifiers and the compatibility modifier state values are expressed as the bitwise union of the core X11 modifier masks. The pointer button state is reported as in the core X11 protocol. literally keeping those facts intact 💅

that's the whole page, and it's XkbGetState(3) from the XKB FUNCTIONS manual. this cutie comes from X Version 11, libX11 1.8.14 — periodt 💖✨

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