XkbTranslateKeySym(3)

🌸 NAME 🌸

Hey bestie, welcome to XkbTranslateKeySym(3) from the XKB FUNCTIONS manual — the page for finding the string and symbol associated with a keysym for a given keyboard state. That’s the whole mission, no cap. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

The actual signature, verbatim, because we do not mess with code around here:

int XkbTranslateKeySym (Display *dpy, KeySym *sym_inout, unsigned int
       mods, char *buf, int nbytes, int *extra_rtrn);

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dpy — connection to X server. Your server link, periodt. 🫶
• sym_inout — symbol to be translated; result of translation. It goes in, and the translated result comes back through it. 💖
• mods — modifiers to apply to sym_inout. 🔥
• buf — buffer into which returned string is written. 🎀
• nbytes — size of buffer in bytes. 📏
• extra_rtrn — number of bytes overflow. 😭

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so here’s the tea: XkbTranslateKeySym applies the transformations specified in mods to the symbol specified by sym_inout. ✨

It returns in buf the string, if any, associated with the keysym for the current locale. If the transformations in mods changes the keysym, sym_inout is updated accordingly. If the string returned is larger than nbytes, a count of bytes that does not fit into the buffer is returned in extra_rtrn. XkbTranslateKeySym returns the number of bytes it placed into buf. 💅

Oversize string? extra_rtrn is literally the count of bytes that didn’t fit. That’s the overflow receipt, bestie. 😭

👑 RETURN VALUES 👑

• buf — Returns the string, if any, associated with the keysym for the current locale. 🎀

And yeah, the function itself returns the number of bytes it placed into buf — that detail is in DESCRIPTION, and we’re not leaving it behind. 💖

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💖 Footer sign-off, bestie: X Version 11, libX11 1.8.14, manual vibes from XKB FUNCTIONS — no separate date on this page’s footer, just the version stamp. Bye! 💅✨