xcb_xv_get_still(3)

🦋 xcb_xv_get_still — the manual page, bestie edition 🦋

okay so real talk, this is xcb_xv_get_still from the XCB Requests family of man pages, and she's a lil mysterious but we love her anyway. Let's get into it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

xcb_xv_get_still — literally that's it, that's the name. The original didn't give us a description here, so I'm not about to make one up. No cap. 🙈

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

First things first, you gotta pull in the header:

#include <xcb/xv.h>

🎀 Request function

xcb_void_cookie_t xcb_xv_get_still(xcb_connection_t *conn,
       xcb_xv_port_t port, xcb_drawable_t drawable, xcb_gcontext_t gc,
       int16_t vid_x, int16_t vid_y, uint16_t vid_w, uint16_t vid_h,
       int16_t drw_x, int16_t drw_y, uint16_t drw_w, uint16_t drw_h);

Look at that signature. Twelve arguments. She's high maintenance and honestly? iconic. 👑

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💖 REQUEST ARGUMENTS 💖

Every single one of these is marked TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. in the original, so I'm passing that energy straight through to you, no editorialising, no vibes-based guessing:

• conn — The XCB connection to X11. (This one is the only one with actual words, bestie, treasure it.)
• port — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED.
• drawable — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED.
• gc — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED.
• vid_x — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED.
• vid_y — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED.
• vid_w — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED.
• vid_h — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED.
• drw_x — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED.
• drw_y — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED.
• drw_w — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED.
• drw_h — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED.

not the twelve consecutive TODOs 😭 she's a work in progress and we support her journey 🫶

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

yeah so... the DESCRIPTION section is empty. Nothing. A whole void. The original said nothing here, so I'm saying nothing here too. That's called integrity, bestie ✨

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

She hands you back an xcb_void_cookie_t. That's the tea. 🍓

If anything goes wrong, you have to catch it yourself in the event loop — errors (if any) are handled there, not here.

But wait, there's more: if you'd rather handle errors directly with xcb_request_check, then use xcb_xv_get_still_checked instead. The details live in xcb-requests(3), go read her. 💜

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💀 ERRORS 💀

This request does never generate any errors.

fr fr. Zero. None. She is at peace. 🧘‍♀️ no drama, no chaos, just vibes 🌸

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

nothing here either bestie, the original left this one blank 💀

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Generated from xv.xml. Contact xcb@lists.freedesktop.org for corrections and improvements.

like, if you spot something wrong, tell the maintainers, they're lovely and they want your feedback, that's the whole point of the contact line 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! go forth and call your twelve-argument function, mwah 💋

this lil rewrite came to you courtesy of X Version 11, libxcb 1.17.0 — catch you in the next man page, love u bye ✨🌈💖