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XkbListComponents(3)		  XKB FUNCTIONS 	    XkbListComponents(3)

NAME
     XkbListComponents - List of components for one or more component types

SYNOPSIS
     XkbComponentListPtr  XkbListComponents  (Display  *dpy,  unsigned	int  de-
	    vice_spec, XkbComponentNamesPtr ptrns, int *max_inout);

ARGUMENTS
     dpy    connection to X server

     device_spec
	    device ID, or XkbUseCoreKbd

     ptrns  namelist for components of interest

     max_inout
	    max # returned names, # left over

DESCRIPTION
     You may ask the server for a list of components for one or  more  component
     types.  The  request  takes  the form of a set of patterns, one pattern for
     each of the component types, including a pattern for the complete	keyboard
     description. To obtain this list, use XkbListComponents.

     XkbListComponents queries the server for a list of component names matching
     the  patterns  specified  in  ptrns.   It waits for a reply and returns the
     matching component names in an XkbComponentListRec structure.  When you are
     done using the structure, you should free	it  using  XkbFreeComponentList.
     device_spec  indicates  a	particular  device in which the caller is inter-
     ested. A server is allowed (but not required) to restrict its reply to por-
     tions of the database that are relevant for that particular device.

     ptrns is a pointer to an XkbComponentNamesRec. Each of the fields in  ptrns
     contains  a pattern naming the components of interest. Each of the patterns
     is composed of characters from the ISO Latin1  encoding,  but  can  contain
     only  parentheses, the wildcard characters `?' and `*', and characters per-
     mitted in a component class or member name. A pattern may be NULL, in which
     case no components for that type is returned. Pattern matches  with  compo-
     nent names are case sensitive. The `?'  wildcard matches any single charac-
     ter,  except a left or right parenthesis; the `*' wildcard matches any num-
     ber of characters, except a left or right parenthesis. If an implementation
     allows additional characters in a component class or member name other than
     those required by the Xkb extension, the result of comparing one of the ad-
     ditional characters to either of the wildcard characters is implementation-
     dependent.

     If a pattern contains illegal characters, the illegal  characters	are  ig-
     nored.  The  matching  process  is carried out as if the illegal characters
     were omitted from the pattern.

     max_inout is used to throttle the amount of data passed  to  and  from  the
     server.  On  input, it specifies the maximum number of names to be returned
     (the total number of names in all component categories). Upon  return  from
     XkbListComponents,  max_inout contains the number of names that matched the
     request but were not returned because of the limit.

     Component Names

     Component names have the form class(member) where class describes a  subset
     of  the  available components for a particular type and the optional member
     identifies a specific component from that subset.	For  example,  the  name
     "atlantis(acme)" for a symbols component might specify the symbols used for
     the  atlantis national keyboard layout by the vendor "acme." Each class has
     an optional default member - references that specify a class but not a mem-
     ber refer to the default member of the class, if one exists. Xkb places  no
     constraints  on  the  interpretation  of the class and member names used in
     component names.

     The class and member names are both specified  using  characters  from  the
     Latin-1  character  set.  Xkb  implementations must accept all alphanumeric
     characters, minus (`-') and underscore (`_') in class or member names,  and
     must  not	accept	parentheses, plus, vertical bar, percent sign, asterisk,
     question mark, or white space. The use of other characters  is  implementa-
     tion-dependent.

STRUCTURES
     The component name patterns used to describe the request are passed to Xkb-
     ListComponents  using an XkbComponentNamesRec structure. This structure has
     no special allocation constraints or interrelationships with  other  struc-
     tures;  allocate  and  free  this	structure using standard malloc and free
     calls or their equivalent:

	 typedef struct _XkbComponentNames {
	     char *	    keymap;	      /* keymap names */
	     char *	    keycodes;	      /* keycode names */
	     char *	    types;	      /* type names */
	     char *	    compat;	      /* compatibility map names */
	     char *	    symbols;	      /* symbol names */
	     char *	    geometry;	      /* geometry names */
	 } XkbComponentNamesRec, *XkbComponentNamesPtr;

     XkbListComponents returns a pointer to an XkbComponentListRec:

	 typedef struct _XkbComponentList {
	     int		      num_keymaps;  /* number of entries in keymap */
	     int		      num_keycodes; /* number of entries in keycodes */
	     int		      num_types;    /* number of entries in types */
	     int		      num_compat;   /* number of entries in compat */
	     int		      num_symbols;  /* number of entries in symbols */
	     int		      num_geometry; /* number of entries in geometry;
	     XkbComponentNamePtr      keymap;	    /* keymap names */
	     XkbComponentNamePtr      keycodes;     /* keycode names */
	     XkbComponentNamePtr      types;	    /* type names */
	     XkbComponentNamePtr      compat;	    /* compatibility map names */
	     XkbComponentNamePtr      symbols;	    /* symbol names */
	     XkbComponentNamePtr      geometry;     /* geometry names */
	 } XkbComponentListRec, *XkbComponentListPtr;

	 typedef struct _XkbComponentName {
	     unsigned short	      flags;	    /* hints regarding component name */
	     char *		      name;	    /* name of component */
	 } XkbComponentNameRec, *XkbComponentNamePtr;

SEE ALSO
     XkbFreeComponentList(3)

NOTES
     Note that the structure used to specify patterns on input is  an  XkbCompo-
     nentNamesRec, and that used to hold the individual component names upon re-
     turn is an XkbComponentNameRec (no trailing `s' in Name).

X Version 11			  libX11 1.8.13 	    XkbListComponents(3)

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