Protoco...XSocket(3)

🦋 Protoco...XSocket(3) — X11::Protocol::Connection::UNIXSocket 🦋

okay so real quick, bestie, this page comes from the User Contributed Perl Documentation (yes, the perl people really said "we'll let the community cook" and honestly? they ate 💅). It's a perl manpage, third section, and the title got chopped up all cute into Protoco...XSocket(3) — iconic abbreviation behaviour, no notes.

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✨ NAME ✨

X11::Protocol::Connection::UNIXSocket — a Perl module for IO::Socket::UNIX-based X11 connections 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

here's the whole vibe, copy it exactly, don't @ me:

  use X11::Protocol;
  use X11::Protocol::Connection::UNIXSocket;
  $conn = X11::Protocol::Connection::UNIXSocket
    ->open($host, $display_number);
  $x = X11::Protocol->new($conn);

like, you literally just use the two modules, open a connection with your $host and $display_number, and then hand that $conn straight to X11::Protocol->new. slay, you're connected 💖

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so what does this lil module even do? bestie, it's the plug 🔌 — X11::Protocol uses it to establish a connection and communicate with a server over a local Unix-domain socket connection. and the way it does that? it's all thanks to the IO::Socket::UNIX module doing the heavy lifting under the hood. chef's kiss ✨

also, and this is important, so pay attention: the host argument is ignored. like, fully ignored. not read, not consulted, not even looked at. it's giving "you brought a plus-one but they're not on the list" 💀 so don't stress about what you pass in there, it's not doing anything iykyk.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Stephen McCamant <SMCCAM@cpan.org> — the main character who made this happen. show some respect 🫡

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

if you wanna go down the rabbit hole (and you should, it's a vibe), go check out:

• perl(1)
• X11::Protocol
• X11::Protocol::Connection::INETSocket
• X11::Protocol::Connection::Socket
• IO::Socket

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ngl the documentation for this one is short and sweet, so that's literally the whole thing. no cap, you've got all of it 🍓

and that's a wrap, bestie! this page is from perl v5.42.0, dated 2024-03-04 — so it's a lil vintage but absolutely still valid. mwah 💋🧚‍♀️💜