xcb_dri2_swap_interval(3)

💅 xcb_dri2_swap_interval — the manual page, but make it cute

okay so bestie, we're looking at xcb_dri2_swap_interval(3) from the XCB Requests family. she's part of libxcb, she lives in section 3 of the manual, and honestly? she's a little mysterious. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

xcb_dri2_swap_interval —

no cap, that's it. the description line is literally empty in the original. she's giving mystery, she's giving enigma, she's giving nothing. 💀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

first things first, you gotta pull in the header:

#include <xcb/dri2.h>

🎀 Request function

xcb_void_cookie_t xcb_dri2_swap_interval(xcb_connection_t *conn,
       xcb_drawable_t drawable, uint32_t interval);

that's the whole vibe. three arguments, one cookie, zero drama. ✨

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✨ REQUEST ARGUMENTS ✨

• conn — your XCB connection to X11. she's the bridge, the connector, the main character that lets you talk to the X server at all. 🌉
• drawable — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. yeah bestie, the docs just said "figure it out". iconic behaviour honestly 🙈
• interval — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. same energy. nobody wrote it down. we move. 💀

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so… there's nothing here. the DESCRIPTION section is empty in the original. like, fully empty. a void. a liminal space. 🦋

ngl this is the part where a normal manpage would explain what swapping the interval actually does, and this one simply does not. no tea, no shade, just facts.

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✨ RETURN VALUE ✨

she hands you back an xcb_void_cookie_t. that's the whole return situation. 🍪

and here's the important part, bestie: errors (if any) have to be handled in the event loop. you don't get them handed to you directly, you gotta go find them. it's giving look for it yourself. 👑

but WAIT — if you'd rather handle errors directly with xcb_request_check instead, use:

xcb_dri2_swap_interval_checked

for the details on all of that, go read xcb-requests(3). she explains the whole cookie-and-error thing way better than I can in a group chat. 📖

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✨ ERRORS ✨

this request does never generate any errors. 🎉

not one. not ever. she's chill like that. no error codes, no stress, no 3am debugging session. slay. 💖

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

…empty. literally nothing listed here. this section is a ghost town and I respect her for it. 👻

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

this page was Generated from dri2.xml. if you've got corrections or improvements, hit up xcb@lists.freedesktop.org — they're literally asking for it, bestie, so if you know something, say something. 📧

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🌸 a gentle reminder that empty DESCRIPTION and empty SEE ALSO sections are not me being lazy — that's genuinely what the page says. I would never gatekeep info from you. 🫶

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okay that's the whole page!! this was X Version 11, libxcb 1.17.0, and she's filed under xcb_dri2_swap_interval(3). thanks for reading my little manpage essay, you're the bestie fr fr 💜✨🎀