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xcb_get_selection_owner
Section: XCB Requests (3)Updated: libxcb 1.12
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NAME
xcb_get_selection_owner - Gets the owner of a selectionSYNOPSIS
#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.