Protoco...XC_MISC(3)

💅 Protoco...XC_MISC(3) — User Contributed Perl Documentation 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the iconic little corner of the docs for this X11 Perl extension. it’s giving “Protoco...XC_MISC(3)” energy, and the manual name is User Contributed Perl Documentation. yes, we’re folding that in right at the top, slay.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

X11::Protocol::Ext::XC_MISC — Perl module for the X11 Protocol XC-MISC Extension

no cap, that’s the whole name and it ate.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bestie, use it like this:

use X11::Protocol;
$x = X11::Protocol->new();
$x->init_extension('XC-MISC');

periodt. that’s the vibe check on the synopsis.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this module is used by the programmer to pre-acquire large numbers of X resource IDs to be used with the X11::Protocol module. literally its whole main character job.

if supported by the server, X11::Protocol will load this module automatically when additional resource IDs are needed via the standard new_rsrc() interface. iykyk.

however, if you anticipate that a program will run for a long time and allocate many resources, it would be a good idea to initialize the extension at startup to verify its existence. highkey a smart little move, fr fr — not me telling you to be prepared or anything 🙈.

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🔥 REQUESTS 🔥

this extension adds three requests, called as shown below:

$x->XCMiscGetVersion => ($major, $minor)

$x->XCMiscGetXIDRange => ($start_id, $count)

$x->XCMiscGetXIDList($count) => ($count, @ids)

three requests, exactly as listed — no more, no less, and we are obsessed with the consistency 💅.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jay Kominek <jay.kominek@colorado.edu>.

the author! iconic behavior, honestly 🫶.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• perl(1)
• X11::Protocol
• XC-MISC Extension (X Consortium Standard)

those are the references, bestie — go forth and cross-reference 🦋.

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💖 cute lil sign-off time: this page comes from perl v5.42.0, dated 2024-03-04, with the footer title Protoco...XC_MISC(3). slay, that’s the whole manual page energy 🎀✨