Table of Contents
XkbLatchModifiers - Latches and unlatches
any of the eight real keyboard modifiers
- Bool XkbLatchModifiers
- (Display *display, unsigned int device_spec, unsigned int affect, unsigned
int values);
- display
- connection to the X server
- device_spec
- device ID, or XkbUseCoreKbd
- affect
- mask of real modifiers whose lock state
is to change
- values
- 1 => lock, 0 => unlock; only for modifiers selected by
affect
XkbLatchModifiers sends a request to the server to latch
the real modifiers selected by both affect and values and to unlatch
the real modifiers selected by affect , but not selected by values.
XkbLatchModifiers does not wait for a reply from the server. It returns
True if the request was sent, and False otherwise.
The functions in this
section that change the use of modifiers use a mask in the parameter affect.
It is a bitwise inclusive OR of the legal modifier masks:
| Table 1 Real
Modifier Masks |
| Mask |
| ShiftMask |
| LockMask |
| ControlMask |
| Mod1Mask |
| Mod2Mask |
| Mod3Mask |
| Mod4Mask |
| Mod5Mask |
- True
- The XkbLatchModifiers function returns True if a request was
sent to the server to latch the real modifiers selected by both affect
and values and to unlatch the real modifiers selected by affect , but
not selected by values.
- False
- The XkbLatchModifiers function returns
False if the request was not sent.
Table of Contents