XkbLatchGroup(3)

💅 XkbLatchGroup(3) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the XKB FUNCTIONS corner of the manual — this one is short, iconic, and very “send it and don’t wait around” energy. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

XkbLatchGroup — latches the keysym group. That’s the whole vibe, no cap. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Bool XkbLatchGroup (Display *display, unsigned int device_spec, unsigned
       int group);

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• display — connection to the X server 💖
• device_spec — device ID, or XkbUseCoreKbd 🦋
• group — index of the keysym group to latch 🌸

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

XkbLatchGroup sends a request to the server to latch the specified group and does not wait for a reply. She’s literally like “sent 💅” and moves on. It returns True if the request was sent and False otherwise. 🫶

When you’re picking a keysym group index, reference it with these symbolic constants, bestie:

📊 Table 1 Symbolic Group Names 📊

• XkbGroup1Index — value 0 ⭐
• XkbGroup2Index — value 1 💜
• XkbGroup3Index — value 2 🍓
• XkbGroup4Index — value 3 🌈

💅 RETURN VALUES 💅

• True — the XkbLatchGroup function returns True if a request was sent to the server to latch the specified group. ✅
• False — the XkbLatchGroup function returns False if the request was not sent. ❌

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xoxo bestie, this has been XkbLatchGroup(3) from X Version 11, libX11 1.8.14 — the footer didn’t hand me a date, so I’m not inventing one, periodt 💖✨🫶