xcb_input_cha...yboard_device(3)

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version 1.17.0 · 4 versions
, in alpine 3.22, alpine 3.23, alpine 3.24, arch rolling, centos-stream 10, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🦋 NAME 🦋

xcb_input_change_keyboard_device — okay so this is the XCB request that swaps which keyboard device is the keyboard device, bestie 💅

It lives in the XCB Requests manual, and it's giving "I only exist so you can change the keyboard device and nothing else" energy. Iconic, honestly.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

First things first, you gotta pull in the header, no cap:

#include <xcb/xinput.h>

🎀 Request function

xcb_input_change_keyboard_device_cookie_t
       xcb_input_change_keyboard_device(xcb_connection_t *conn,
       uint8_t device_id);

🍓 Reply datastructure

typedef struct xcb_input_change_keyboard_device_reply_t {
    uint8_t  response_type;
    uint8_t  xi_reply_type;
    uint16_t sequence;
    uint32_t length;
    uint8_t  status;
    uint8_t  pad0[23];
} xcb_input_change_keyboard_device_reply_t;

🌸 Reply function

xcb_input_change_keyboard_device_reply_t
       *xcb_input_change_keyboard_device_reply(xcb_connection_t *conn,
       xcb_input_change_keyboard_device_cookie_t cookie,
       xcb_generic_error_t **e);

💖 REQUEST ARGUMENTS 💖

  • conn — the XCB connection to X11. Your lil hotline to the server, fr fr. 🫶
  • device_id — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. Yeah bestie, that's literally all it says. The lore is unfinished. 😭

👑 REPLY FIELDS 👑

  • response_type — the type of this reply, which in this case is XCB_INPUT_CHANGE_KEYBOARD_DEVICE. This field is also chillin' inside the xcb_generic_reply_t, so you can use it to tell replies apart from each other. Vibe check: passed. ⭐
  • sequence — the sequence number of the last request processed by the X11 server. Keeping receipts, as she should. 🧾
  • length — the length of the reply, in words (and a word here is 4 bytes, just so we're clear). 🎀
  • xi_reply_type — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. Mystery field, we simply don't know her. 🙈
  • status — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. Also a mystery. The girls are keeping secrets. 💀

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Nothing here. The original page has literally no description text. Not one word. We're all just vibing off the SYNOPSIS alone, and that's fine. 💜

🔥 RETURN VALUE 🔥

She hands you back an xcb_input_change_keyboard_device_cookie_t. Errors have to be handled when you call the reply function xcb_input_change_keyboard_device_reply.

If you'd rather handle errors in the event loop instead, use xcb_input_change_keyboard_device_unchecked. See xcb-requests(3) for the details, bestie — that's where the real tea is. ☕

💀 ERRORS 💀

This request does never generate any errors. Not a single one. She's unproblematic, she's drama-free, she simply does not start anything. ✨

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

Empty. Nothing to see here. No cross-references, no friends, just her. Main character energy, honestly. 👑

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Generated from xinput.xml. Contact xcb@lists.freedesktop.org for corrections and improvements. If you find a typo, tell them, not me. 💖

And that's the whole page, bestie!! This absolute gem comes from X Version 11, libxcb 1.17.0 — so yeah, that's the source and the version, consider yourself informed. 🌈✨🎀 Go forth and change a keyboard device, or whatever. Slay. 💅🦋

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