XtGetKeysymTable(3)

✨ XtGetKeysymTable(3) ✨

okay bestie, we're in the XT FUNCTIONS section of the manual, and today's episode is querying keysyms and keycodes 💅 like, the keyboard lore, the mapping tea. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

XtGetKeysymTable, XtKeysymToKeycodeList — query keysyms and keycodes 🔥

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🎀 SYNTAX 🎀

#include <X11/Intrinsic.h>

KeySym* XtGetKeysymTable(Display* display, KeyCode* min_keycode_return,
       int *keysyms_per_keycode_return);

void XtKeysymToKeycodeList(Display* display, KeySym keysym, KeyCode**
       keycodes_return, Cardinal* keycount_return);

literally copy these exact signatures into your code, no cap, don't freestyle the types 💀

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• display — tells us which display's table we're asking about. it's giving "which screen, bestie?" ✨
• min_keycode_return — on the way out, this holds the smallest KeyCode that's valid for the display. returns it to you 🎁
• keysyms_per_keycode_return — on the way out, this holds how many KeySyms are stored for each KeyCode. yeah, each keycode can have a lil squad of keysyms 👑
• keysym — the KeySym you're hunting for. the one we're searching 🔍
• keycodes_return — on the way out, this is a list of the KeyCodes that have keysym associated with them. or NULL if keycount_return is 0 🫥
• keycount_return — on the way out, this is how many KeyCodes are in that list. the count, the receipts, the number 📊

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

XtGetKeysymTable hands you back a pointer to the Intrinsics' own copy of the server's KeyCode-to-KeySym table. it's the table, the whole vibe check of your keyboard mapping.

⚠️ bestie, listen: this table must not be modified. do not touch. do not edit. hands off. it's not yours, it's the Intrinsics', and messing with it is not the move 🙈 periodt.

XtKeysymToKeycodeList is the other one — it returns all the KeyCodes that have keysym sitting in their entry for the keyboard mapping table associated with display. like, every single keycode that reps that keysym 🌈

and then, when you're done with it, the caller should free the storage that keycodes_return points to, using XtFree. yes, that's on you. clean up after yourself, queen 🧹💅

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface
• Xlib - C Language X Interface

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀✨ this one's from X Version 11, libXt 1.3.1 — shoutout to the libXt girlies keeping your keyboard mappings iconic since forever 👑 mwah, go free your keycodes_return storage 💖🦋