XkbLatchGroup (3) Linux Manual Page
XkbLatchGroup – Latches the keysym group
Synopsis
- Bool XkbLatchGroup (Display *display, unsigned int device_spec, unsigned int group);
Arguments
- display
- connection to the X server
- connection to the X server
- device_spec
- device ID, or XkbUseCoreKbd
- group
- index of the keysym group to latch
Description
XkbLatchGroup sends a request to the server to latch 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 Name | Value |
| XkbGroup1Index | 0 |
| XkbGroup2Index | 1 |
| XkbGroup3Index | 2 |
| XkbGroup4Index | 3 |
Return Values
- True
- The XkbLatchGroup function returns True if a request was sent to the server to latch the specified group.
- False
- The XkbLatchGroup function returns False if the request was not sent.