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XkbVirtualModsToReal(3) 	  XKB FUNCTIONS 	 XkbVirtualModsToReal(3)

NAME
     XkbVirtualModsToReal  - Determines the mapping of virtual modifiers to core
     X protocol modifiers

SYNOPSIS
     Bool XkbVirtualModsToReal (XkbDescPtr xkb, unsigned int  virtual_mask,  un-
	    signed int *mask_rtrn);

ARGUMENTS
     xkb    keyboard description for input device

     virtual_mask
	    virtual modifier mask to translate

     mask_rtrn
	    backfilled with real modifiers

DESCRIPTION
     Xkb maintains a virtual modifier mapping, which lists the virtual modifiers
     associated  with, or bound to, each key. The real modifiers bound to a vir-
     tual modifier always include all of the modifiers bound to any of the  keys
     that  specify  that virtual modifier in their virtual modifier mapping. The
     server.vmodmap array indicates which virtual modifiers are  bound	to  each
     key;   each  entry  is  a	bitmask  for  the  virtual  modifier  bits.  The
     server.vmodmap array is indexed by keycode.

     The vmodmap and vmods members of the server map are  the  "master"  virtual
     modifier  definitions.  Xkb  automatically  propagates any changes to these
     fields to all other fields that use virtual modifier mappings.

     For example, if Mod3 is bound to the Num_Lock key by the core protocol mod-
     ifier mapping, and the NumLock virtual modifier is bound to  they	Num_Lock
     key  by the virtual modifier mapping, Mod3 is added to the set of modifiers
     associated with NumLock.

     The virtual modifier mapping is normally updated whenever actions are auto-
     matically applied to symbols and few applications should need to change the
     virtual modifier mapping explicitly.

     Use XkbGetMap to get the virtual modifiers  from  the  server  or	use  Xk-
     bGetVirtualMods  to  update  a local copy of the virtual modifiers bindings
     from the server. To set the binding of a virtual modifier to a  real  modi-
     fier, use XkbGetVirtualMods

     If  the  keyboard	description defined by xkb includes bindings for virtual
     modifiers, XkbVirtualModsToReal uses those bindings to determine the set of
     real modifiers that correspond to the set of virtual modifiers specified in
     virtual_mask.  The virtual_mask parameter is a mask specifying the  virtual
     modifiers	to  translate;	the i-th bit (0 relative) of the mask represents
     the i-th virtual modifier. If mask_rtrn is  non-NULL,  XkbVirtualModsToReal
     backfills	it  with  the  resulting real modifier mask. If the keyboard de-
     scription in xkb does not include virtual modifier bindings, XkbVirtualMod-
     sToReal returns False; otherwise, it returns True.

RETURN VALUES
     True	    The XkbVirtualModsToReal function returns True if  the  key-
		    board description in xkb does include virtual modifier bind-
		    ings.

     False	    The  XkbVirtualModsToReal function returns False if the key-
		    board description in xkb does not include  virtual	modifier
		    bindings.

SEE ALSO
     XkbGetMap(3), XkbGetVirtualMods(3)

NOTES
     It  is possible for a local (client-side) keyboard description (the xkb pa-
     rameter) to not contain any virtual modifier  information	(simply  because
     the  client  has not requested it) while the server's corresponding defini-
     tion may contain virtual modifier information.

X Version 11			  libX11 1.8.13 	 XkbVirtualModsToReal(3)

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