GLXDESTROYCONTEXT(3gl)

💅 GLXDESTROYCONTEXT 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the glXDestroyContext page from section 3G of the manual — aka the "how do i say goodbye to a GLX context" tutorial nobody asked for but everybody needs 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

glXDestroyContext — destroy a GLX context 💀

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🌸 C SPECIFICATION 🌸

void glXDestroyContext( Display *dpy,
                        GLXContext ctx )

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like yes, that's the whole signature, no cap ✨

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🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• dpy — the connection to the X server. literally just telling it which X server we're talking to, bestie 🖥️
• ctx — the GLX context you want to destroy. bye girl 👋

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea ☕

If the GLX rendering context ctx is not current to any thread, then glXDestroyContext destroys it immediately. like, right now, no waiting, instant 🫰

Otherwise — if it is current to some thread — ctx gets destroyed when it becomes not current to any thread. so it's giving "i'll deal with you later, bestie" energy 💅

But here's the part that matters in either case, and it's lowkey the main character of this whole manpage: the resource ID referenced by ctx is freed immediately. like the moment you call it, that ID is gone-gone. periodt 🔥

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😭 ERRORS 😭

• GLXBadContext is generated if ctx is not a valid GLX context. so if you hand it a fake one, it WILL call you out 🙈

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💖 SEE ALSO 💖

• glXCreateContext
• glXMakeCurrent

go read those too, iykyk 👑

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real talk: the resource ID is freed immediately no matter what, so don't go thinking you can keep using it while you wait for the context to finish dying. nope. she's gone ✨

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and that's the whole vibe check, bestie 🌈 this was GLXDESTROYCONTEXT() — section 3G of the manual, footer and all, same name top and bottom, still iconic 💜🎀🦋