XkbLockGroup(3)

XkbLockGroup3

Locks the keysym group

Usage

Bool XkbLockGroup (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 lock

Overview

XkbLockGroup sends a request to the server to lock 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 XkbLockGroup function returns True when a request was sent to the server to lock the specified group and does not wait for a reply.

False

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

Releases

10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 9 times.

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

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