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xcb_composite_query_version_reply(3)

xcb_composite_query_version_reply3

Negotiate the version of composite

Part of xcb_composite_query_version(3).

Usage

Request function

xcb_composite_query_version_cookie_t xcb_composite_query_version(xcb_connection_t *conn, uint32_t client_major_version, uint32_t client_minor_version);

Reply datastructure

uint8_t response_type;

uint8_t pad0;

uint16_t sequence;

uint32_t length;

uint32_t major_version;

uint32_t minor_version;

uint8_t pad1 [16] ;

Request arguments

conn

The XCB connection to X11.

client_major_version

The major version supported by the client.

client_minor_version

The minor version supported by the client.

Reply fields

response_type

The type of this reply, in this case XCB_COMPOSITE_QUERY_VERSION. This field is also present in the xcb_generic_reply_t and can be used to tell replies apart from each other.

sequence

The sequence number of the last request processed by the X11 server.

length

The length of the reply, in words (a word is 4 bytes).

major_version

The major version chosen by the server.

minor_version

The minor version chosen by the server.

Overview

This negotiates the version of the Composite extension. It must be precede all other requests using Composite. Failure to do so will cause a BadRequest error.

Return value

Returns an xcb_composite_query_version_cookie_t. Errors have to be handled when calling the reply function xcb_composite_query_version_reply.

If you want to handle errors in the event loop instead, use xcb_composite_query_version_unchecked. See xcb-requests(3) for details.

Errors

This request does never generate any errors.

History

  • Arch Linux 2026-11-01 to Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm)
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye)
  • Debian 10 (Buster)
  • Debian 9 (Stretch)

Author

Generated from composite.xml. Contact [email protected] for corrections and improvements.

From libxcb 1.17.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.