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XkbGetGeometry

NAME
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ARGUMENTS
DESCRIPTION
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NAME

XkbGetGeometry − Loads a keyboard geometry if you already have the keyboard description

SYNOPSIS

Status XkbGetGeometry

(Display *dpy, XkbDescPtr xkb);

ARGUMENTS

	*− dpy*		connection to the X server
	− xkb		keyboard description that contains the ID for the keyboard and into which the geometry should be loaded

DESCRIPTION

You can load a keyboard geometry as part of the keyboard description returned by XkbGetKeyboard. However, if a keyboard description has been previously loaded, you can instead obtain the geometry by calling the XkbGetGeometry. In this case, the geometry returned is the one associated with the keyboard whose device ID is contained in the keyboard description.

XkbGetGeometry can return BadValue, BadImplementation, BadName, BadAlloc, or BadLength errors or Success if it succeeds.

DIAGNOSTICS

BadAlloc

Unable to allocate storage

BadImplementation

Invalid reply from server

	BadLength		The length of a request is shorter or longer than that required to minimally contain the arguments
	BadName		A font or color of the specified name does not exist
	BadValue		An argument is out of range

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