xkbtranslatekeysym(3) - Linux man page
Name
XkbTranslateKeySym - Find the string and symbol associated with a keysym for a given keyboard state
Synopsis
int XkbTranslateKeySym (Display *dpy, KeySym *sym_inout, unsigned int mods, char *buf, int nbytes, int *extra_rtrn);
Arguments
- - dpy
connection to X server
- - sym_inout
- symbol to be translated; result of translation
- - mods
modifiers to apply to sym_inout
- buf
buffer into which returned string is written
- - nbytes
- size of buffer in bytes
- - extra_rtrn
- number of bytes overflow
Description
XkbTranslateKeySym applies the transformations specified in mods to the symbol specified by sym_inout. It returns in buf the string, if any, associated with the keysym for the current locale. If the transformations in mods changes the keysym, sym_inout is updated accordingly. If the string returned is larger than nbytes, a count of bytes that does not fit into the buffer is returned in extra_rtrn. XkbTranslateKeySym returns the number of bytes it placed into buf.
Return Values
- buf
Returns the string, if any, associated with the keysym for the current locale.