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XkbLatchGroup(3)

Latches the keysym group

NAME

XkbLatchGroup - Latches the keysym group

SYNOPSIS

Bool XkbLatchGroup (Display *display, unsigned int device_spec, unsigned int group);

ARGUMENTS

display

connection to the X server

device_spec

device ID, or XkbUseCoreKbd

group

index of the keysym group to latch

DESCRIPTION

XkbLatchGroup sends a request to the server to latch the specified group and does not wait for a reply. It returns True if the request was sent and False otherwise.

Reference the keysym group indices with these symbolic constants:

Table 1 Symbolic Group Names
Symbolic NameValue
XkbGroup1Index0
XkbGroup2Index1
XkbGroup3Index2
XkbGroup4Index3

RETURN VALUES

True

The XkbLatchGroup function returns True if a request was sent to the server to latch the specified group.

False

The XkbLatchGroup function returns False if the request was not sent.

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