XtDisplay(3)

✨ XtDisplay — the XT FUNCTIONS glow-up ✨

okay bestie, so you're deep in X Toolkit Intrinsics land and you just need to grab a Display *, a Screen *, or a Window off a widget?? say less 💅 this page is from the XT FUNCTIONS corner of the manual and it's literally your one-stop shop for "give me the thing behind the thing".

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📛 NAME

XtDisplay, XtDisplayOfObject, XtScreen, XtScreenOfObject, XtWindow, XtWindowOfObject — obtain window information about a widget 🪟✨

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📜 SYNTAX

#include <X11/Intrinsic.h>

Display *XtDisplay(Widget w);

Display *XtDisplayOfObject(Widget object);

Screen *XtScreen(Widget w);

Screen *XtScreenOfObject(Widget object);

Window XtWindow(Widget w);

Window XtWindowOfObject(Widget object);

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🎀 ARGUMENTS

• w — Specifies the widget. (yes she's just a widget, she contains multitudes 🫶)
• object — Specifies the widget. (same energy, different name, iconic of them fr fr)

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💖 DESCRIPTION

• XtDisplay returns the display pointer for the specified widget. the display!! the main character connection to the X server!! 👑
• XtDisplayOfObject returns the display pointer for the specified object. same vibe, object edition 🦋
• XtScreen returns the screen pointer for the specified widget. screen pointer acquired, no cap 🖥️
• XtScreenOfObject returns the screen pointer for the specified object. screen pointer but make it an object 🌸
• XtWindow returns the window of the specified widget. the actual window, bestie, the real one 🪟
• XtWindowOfObject returns the window of the specified object. window energy, object flavor 💜

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👀 SEE ALSO

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

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not me ending this with the receipts 💀: this page is from X Version 11, libXt 1.3.1, and it's the XtDisplay(3) manual page. go get that display pointer, you absolute legend 🌈⭐ periodt.