XCB_INPUT_XI_GET_CLIENT_POINTER_UNCHECKED(3)

💅 xcb_input_xi_get_client_pointer — the manual page bestie

okay so this is xcb_input_xi_get_client_pointer(3), part of the XCB request family, and yes the name is a whole mouthful but we move 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

xcb_input_xi_get_client_pointer — no description attached, the original page literally just leaves this one blank, and honestly? mysterious. iconic. we respect it. 💜

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

first things first, you gotta bring in the header:

#include <xcb/xinput.h>

🎀 Request function

xcb_input_xi_get_client_pointer_cookie_t
       xcb_input_xi_get_client_pointer(xcb_connection_t *conn,
       xcb_window_t window);

🦋 Reply datastructure

typedef struct xcb_input_xi_get_client_pointer_reply_t {
    uint8_t               response_type;
    uint8_t               pad0;
    uint16_t              sequence;
    uint32_t              length;
    uint8_t               set;
    uint8_t               pad1;
    xcb_input_device_id_t deviceid;
    uint8_t               pad2[20];
} xcb_input_xi_get_client_pointer_reply_t;

💖 Reply function

xcb_input_xi_get_client_pointer_reply_t
       *xcb_input_xi_get_client_pointer_reply(xcb_connection_t *conn,
       xcb_input_xi_get_client_pointer_cookie_t cookie,
       xcb_generic_error_t **e);

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🍓 REQUEST ARGUMENTS 🍓

• conn — the XCB connection to X11. your lil phone line to the server, she's doing the talking 💬
• window — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. bestie they really just left this one blank, it's giving "we'll finish it later" and later never came 😭

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👑 REPLY FIELDS 👑

• response_type — the type of this reply, which in this case is XCB_INPUT_XI_GET_CLIENT_POINTER. this field also lives inside xcb_generic_reply_t, and that's how you tell your replies apart from each other — very "which one of y'all is this" energy 🔍
• sequence — the sequence number of the last request processed by the X11 server. basically the receipt number 🧾
• length — the length of the reply, measured in words (and a word here is 4 bytes, no cap) 📏
• set — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. 🙈
• deviceid — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. 🙈

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

this section is empty in the original. literally nothing. a blank canvas. we're leaving it exactly as the universe intended ✨ (the vibe check came back: no info 💀)

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

you get back an xcb_input_xi_get_client_pointer_cookie_t. that's a cookie, and cookies mean the actual answer isn't here yet — you gotta go pick it up later 🍪

so: errors have to be handled when you call the reply function, xcb_input_xi_get_client_pointer_reply.

but if you'd rather handle your errors inside the event loop instead, use xcb_input_xi_get_client_pointer_unchecked — and go peek at xcb-requests(3) for the full deets on how that works.

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💀 ERRORS 💀

good news bestie: this request does never generate any errors. not one. zero. a peaceful queen 👑

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

nothing here either. the original page left this one blank. we're not gonna invent references, that's not the move 💅

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💌 AUTHOR 💌

Generated from xinput.xml. For corrections and improvements, contact xcb@lists.freedesktop.org — they're the ones to @ in the group chat 📧

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and that's the whole page, fr fr. go forth, call your function, collect your cookie 💖

X Version 11 · libxcb 1.17.0 — that's the source and version info from the footer, folded in right here at the end because we're cute like that 🎀✨💅