XkbTranslateKeySym(3)
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.