January 1989
Intermediate to advanced
723 pages
14h 11m
English
Content preview from Xlib Reference Manual for Version 11 of the X Window System
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Symbol Reference
This appendix presents an alphabetical listing of the symbols used in X. The routines in parentheses following the descriptions indicate the routines associated with those symbols.
| A | |
| Above | stacking method (XConfigureWindow) |
| AllHints | XA_WM_HINTS property, all members set (XGetWMHints, XSetWMHints) |
| AllTemporary | resource ID passed to XKillClient |
| Allvalues | mask used by XParseGeometry, returns those set by user |
| AllocAll | allocate entire map writable (XCreateColormap) |
| AllocNone | create map with no entries (XCreateColormap) |
| AllowExposures | screen saver (XSetSreenSaver, XGetScreenSaver) |
| AlreadyGrabbed | XGrabPointer, XGrabKeyboard return Status |
| Always | backing_store attribute (XCreateWindow, XChangeWindowAttributes) |
| AnyButton | button name for XGrabButton, or for ButtonPress or ButtonRelease detail |
| AnyKey | keycode for XGrabKey |
| AnyModifier | modifier key mask for XGrabButton, XGrabKey, results of XQueryPointer, event state |
| AnyPropertyType | atom for XGetProperty |
| ArcChord | arc_mode in GC, join endpoints of arc (XFillArcs) |
| ArcPieSlice | arc_mode in GC, join endpoints to center of arc (XFillArcs) |
| AsyncBoth | XAllowEvents mode |
| AsyncKeyboard | XAllowEvents mode |
| AsyncPointer | XAllowEvents mode |
| AutoRepeatModeDefault | keyboard preferences
(XChangeKeyboardControl, XGetKeyboardControl) |
| AutoRepeatModeOff | keyboard preferences
(XChangeKeyboardControl, XGetKeyboardControl) |
| AutoRepeatModeOn | keyboard preferences
(XChangeKeyboardControl, XGetKeyboardControl) ... |
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