xcb_get_selection_owner

Section: XCB Requests (3)
Updated: libxcb 1.13.1
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NAME

xcb_get_selection_owner - Gets the owner of a selection

SYNOPSIS

#include <xcb/xproto.h>

Request function

: xcb_get_selection_owner_cookie_t xcb_get_selection_owner(xcb_connection_t *conn, xcb_atom_t selection);

Reply datastructure


typedef struct xcb_get_selection_owner_reply_t {
    uint8_t      response_type;
    uint8_t      pad0;
    uint16_t     sequence;
    uint32_t     length;
    xcb_window_t owner;
} xcb_get_selection_owner_reply_t;

Reply function

: xcb_get_selection_owner_reply_t *xcb_get_selection_owner_reply(xcb_connection_t *conn, xcb_get_selection_owner_cookie_t cookie, xcb_generic_error_t **e);

REQUEST ARGUMENTS

conn: The XCB connection to X11.
selection: The selection.

REPLY FIELDS

response_type: The type of this reply, in this case XCB_GET_SELECTION_OWNER. This field is also present in the xcb_generic_reply_t and can be used to tell replies apart from each other.
sequence: The sequence number of the last request processed by the X11 server.
length: The length of the reply, in words (a word is 4 bytes).
owner: The current selection owner window.

DESCRIPTION

Gets the owner of the specified selection.

TODO: briefly explain what a selection is.

RETURN VALUE

Returns an xcb_get_selection_owner_cookie_t. Errors have to be handled when calling the reply function xcb_get_selection_owner_reply.

If you want to handle errors in the event loop instead, use xcb_get_selection_owner_unchecked. See xcb-requests(3) for details.

ERRORS

xcb_atom_error_t: selection does not refer to a valid atom.

AUTHOR

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