XkbLatchGroup3
Latches the keysym group
Usage
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
Overview
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 Name | Value |
| XkbGroup1Index | 0 |
| XkbGroup2Index | 1 |
| XkbGroup3Index | 2 |
| XkbGroup4Index | 3 |
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.
History
- Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
- Debian 13 (Trixie)
- Debian 12 (Bookworm)
- Debian 11 (Bullseye)
- Debian 10 (Buster)
- Debian 9 (Stretch)
- Debian 8 (Jessie)
- Debian 7 (Wheezy)
- Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)
- Debian 5.0 (Lenny)