XTextWidth16(3)

XTextWidth163

Compute text width

Part of XTextWidth(3).

Usage

int XTextWidth(XFontStruct *font_struct, _Xconst char *string, int count);

int XTextWidth16(XFontStruct *font_struct, _Xconst XChar2b *string, int count);

Arguments

count

Specifies the character count in the specified string.

font_struct

Specifies the font used for the width computation.

string

Specifies the character string.

Overview

The XTextWidth and XTextWidth16 functions return the width of the specified 8-bit or 2-byte character strings.

Releases

11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 10 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9
  7. 10
  8. 11
  9. 12
  10. 13
  11. Arch

From libx11 1.8.14-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.