xcb_get_selection_owner_unchecked3
Gets the owner of a selection
Part of xcb_get_selection_owner(3).
Usage
Request function
xcb_get_selection_owner_cookie_t xcb_get_selection_owner(xcb_connection_t
*conn,
xcb_atom_t
selection);
Reply datastructure
uint8_t response_type;
uint8_t pad0;
uint16_t sequence;
uint32_t length;
xcb_window_t owner;
Request arguments
- conn
-
The XCB connection to X11.
- selection
-
The selection.
Reply fields
- response_type
-
The type of this reply, in this case XCB_GET_SELECTION_OWNER. 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).
- owner
-
The current selection owner window.
Overview
Gets the owner of the specified selection.
TODO: briefly explain what a selection is.
Return value
Returns an xcb_get_selection_owner_cookie_t. Errors have to be handled when calling the reply function xcb_get_selection_owner_reply.
If you want to handle errors in the event loop instead, use xcb_get_selection_owner_unchecked. See xcb-requests(3) for details.
Errors
- xcb_atom_error_t
-
selection does not refer to a valid atom.
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)