xcb_record_get_context(3)

💖 xcb_record_get_context — the manual page, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, gather round 🫶 this is the manual page for xcb_record_get_context(3) — it lives in the XCB Requests family, straight outta the X protocol bindings, and it's part of libxcb. Let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

xcb_record_get_context —

(yeah. that's it. the name section is literally just vibes and a dash. the original said nothing else, so neither do I 💀)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

First things first, you gotta pull in the header:

#include <xcb/record.h>

🎀 Request function

xcb_record_get_context_cookie_t
       xcb_record_get_context(xcb_connection_t *conn,
       xcb_record_context_t context);

🦋 Reply datastructure

typedef struct xcb_record_get_context_reply_t {
    uint8_t                     response_type;
    uint8_t                     enabled;
    uint16_t                    sequence;
    uint32_t                    length;
    xcb_record_element_header_t element_header;
    uint8_t                     pad0[3];
    uint32_t                    num_intercepted_clients;
    uint8_t                     pad1[16];
} xcb_record_get_context_reply_t;

💅 Reply function

xcb_record_get_context_reply_t
       *xcb_record_get_context_reply(xcb_connection_t *conn,
       xcb_record_get_context_cookie_t cookie, xcb_generic_error_t **e);

🧚 Reply accessors

int xcb_record_get_context_intercepted_clients_length(const
       xcb_record_get_context_reply_t *reply);

xcb_record_client_info_iterator_t
       xcb_record_get_context_intercepted_clients_iterator(const
       xcb_record_get_context_reply_t *reply);

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👑 REQUEST ARGUMENTS 👑

• conn — bestie. the plug. the connection to X11. your link to the server, no cap.
• context — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. (the original really said "we'll figure it out later" and honestly? relatable 🙈)

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🌈 REPLY FIELDS 🌈

• response_type — tells you what kind of reply this is. in this case it's XCB_RECORD_GET_CONTEXT. this field is also chillin' inside xcb_generic_reply_t, so you can use it to tell your replies apart from each other. very "which one of y'all is this" energy.
• sequence — the sequence number of the last request that got processed by the X11 server. it's giving receipts 🧾
• length — how long the reply is, in words. and btw a word is 4 bytes, that's the lore.
• enabled — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. 💀
• element_header — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. 💀
• num_intercepted_clients — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. 💀

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so. this section is completely empty in the original. nothing. void. silent. the manual page simply did not elaborate and I refuse to make things up, so: it's blank, bestie. that's the whole description. iconic honestly 💅

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

It hands you back an xcb_record_get_context_cookie_t. note the cookie — that's the "I ordered something, come back for it later" token 🍪

Errors? Those don't show up here. You have to deal with them when you call the reply function, xcb_record_get_context_reply.

And if you'd rather catch your errors in the event loop instead? Then use xcb_record_get_context_unchecked instead. Peep xcb-requests(3) for the deets.

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🔥 ERRORS 🔥

This request does never generate any errors. zero. none. clean slate. no drama, no mess. periodt.

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

(empty in the original — no cross references, no links, just quiet. so we move on 💖)

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Generated from record.xml. For corrections and improvements, hit up xcb@lists.freedesktop.org. be nice, they're doing their best 🥺

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and that's the page, bestie 💖 stay slay, handle your cookies, and remember: no errors ever. periodt ✨

X Version 11 · libxcb 1.17.0 · xcb_record_get_context(3) — mwah, love u, go read xcb-requests(3) 🌈🎀