xcb_shape_query_version(3)

✨ xcb_shape_query_version 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the XCB Requests corner of the manual, page xcb_shape_query_version(3). yes the name is long. yes you're gonna say it in one breath. let's go 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

xcb_shape_query_version — it asks the X server what version of the SHAPE extension it's running (the NAME section was literally just vibes and a dash, so we're keeping it real)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

#include <xcb/shape.h>

🎀 Request function

xcb_shape_query_version_cookie_t
       xcb_shape_query_version(xcb_connection_t *conn,

🫶 Reply datastructure

this is the lil struct that comes back at you:

typedef struct xcb_shape_query_version_reply_t {
    uint8_t  response_type;
    uint8_t  pad0;
    uint16_t sequence;
    uint32_t length;
    uint16_t major_version;
    uint16_t minor_version;
} xcb_shape_query_version_reply_t;

💖 Reply function

xcb_shape_query_version_reply_t
       *xcb_shape_query_version_reply(xcb_connection_t *conn,
       xcb_shape_query_version_cookie_t cookie,
       xcb_generic_error_t **e);

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👑 REQUEST ARGUMENTS 👑

• conn — the XCB connection to X11. that's it. that's the whole argument list. iconic, honestly.

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🌈 REPLY FIELDS 🌈

• response_type — the type of this reply, and in this case it's XCB_SHAPE_QUERY_VERSION. this field also lives in the xcb_generic_reply_t, so you can use it to tell your replies apart from each other when they're all piled up in the group chat.
• sequence — the sequence number of the last request the X11 server processed. like a lil receipt number 🧾
• length — how long the reply is, in words. and no, not vibes words — a word here is 4 bytes.
• major_version — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. (bestie the docs really said "figure it out" 😭)
• minor_version — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. (same energy, same void 🕳️)

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so. the DESCRIPTION section is empty. nothing. a whole blank. not me staring at the void 😭

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

you get back an xcb_shape_query_version_cookie_t 🍪 — a cookie, a promise, a little "your answer is coming, bestie."

errors have to be handled when you call the reply function xcb_shape_query_version_reply.

but if you'd rather handle errors in the event loop instead? use xcb_shape_query_version_unchecked. see xcb-requests(3) for the details, iykyk.

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💀 ERRORS 💀

this request never generates any errors. zero. none. not a single one. it's giving peaceful. ✨

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

(the SEE ALSO section was empty too, so there's nothing to point you at — go live your life 🦋)

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🙈 AUTHOR 🙈

generated from shape.xml. contact xcb@lists.freedesktop.org for corrections and improvements — fr fr, they want your feedback.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this one came from X Version 11, libxcb 1.17.0, and it lives at xcb_shape_query_version(3). go query that version, you absolute main character 💅👑