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xcb_dbe_get_back_buffer_attributes(3)

xcb_dbe_get_back_buffer_attributes3

Gets back buffer attributes

Usage

Request function

xcb_dbe_get_back_buffer_attributes_cookie_t xcb_dbe_get_back_buffer_attributes(xcb_connection_t *conn, xcb_dbe_back_buffer_t buffer);

Reply datastructure

uint8_t response_type;

uint8_t pad0;

uint16_t sequence;

uint32_t length;

xcb_dbe_buffer_attributes_t attributes;

uint8_t pad1 [20] ;

Request arguments

conn

The XCB connection to X11.

buffer

The back buffer to query.

Reply fields

response_type

The type of this reply, in this case XCB_DBE_GET_BACK_BUFFER_ATTRIBUTES. 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).

attributes

TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED.

Overview

Returns the attributes of the specified buffer.

Return value

Returns an xcb_dbe_get_back_buffer_attributes_cookie_t. Errors have to be handled when calling the reply function xcb_dbe_get_back_buffer_attributes_reply.

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

Errors

This request does never generate any errors.

Author

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