XkbGetGeometry(3) XKB FUNCTIONS XkbGetGeometry(3)
NAME
XkbGetGeometry - Loads a keyboard geometry if you already have the key-
board 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 re-
turned 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 associ-
ated with the keyboard whose device ID is contained in the keyboard de-
scription.
XkbGetGeometry can return BadValue, BadImplementation, BadName, BadAl-
loc, 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
SEE ALSO
XkbGetKeyboard(3)
X Version 11 libX11 1.8.12 XkbGetGeometry(3)
Generated by dwww version 1.16 on Sat Oct 3 07:38:24 CEST 2026.