XkbGetGeometry (3)

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man3/XkbGetGeometry.3".)

NAME

XkbGetGeometry - Loads a keyboard geometry if you already have the keyboard description

SYNOPSIS

Status XkbGetGeometry (Display *dpy, XkbDescPtr xkb);
     

ARGUMENTS

- dpy

connection to the X server

- xkb

keyboard description that contains the ID for the keyboard and into which the geometry should be loaded

DESCRIPTION

You can load a keyboard geometry as part of the keyboard description returned by XkbGetKeyboard. However, if a keyboard description has been previously loaded, you can instead obtain the geometry by calling the XkbGetGeometry. In this case, the geometry returned is the one associated with the keyboard whose device ID is contained in the keyboard description.
XkbGetGeometry can return BadValue, BadImplementation, BadName, BadAlloc, or BadLength errors or Success if it succeeds.

DIAGNOSTICS

BadAlloc

Unable to allocate storage

BadImplementation

Invalid reply from server

BadLength

The length of a request is shorter or longer than that required to minimally contain the arguments

BadName

A font or color of the specified name does not exist

BadValue

An argument is out of range

SEE ALSO

XkbGetKeyboard(3)