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XLIB FUNCTIONS                                  XGrabButton(3x11)



NAME
     XGrabButton, XUngrabButton - grab pointer buttons

SYNTAX
     cc [ flag... ] file... -lX11 [ library... ]

     int XGrabButton(Display *display, unsigned int button,
          unsigned int modifiers, Window grab_window, Bool
          owner_events, unsigned int event_mask, int
          pointer_mode, keyboard_mode, Window confine_to, Cursor
          cursor);

     int XUngrabButton(Display *display, unsigned int button,
          unsigned int modifiers, Window grab_window);

ARGUMENTS
     button    Specifies the pointer button that is to be grabbed
               or released or AnyButton.

     confine_to
               Specifies the window to confine the pointer in or
               None.

     cursor    Specifies the cursor that is to be displayed or
               None.

     display   Specifies the connection to the X server.

     event_mask
               Specifies which pointer events are reported to the
               client.  The mask is the bitwise inclusive OR of
               the valid pointer event mask bits.

     grab_window
               Specifies the grab window.

     keyboard_mode
               Specifies further processing of keyboard events.
               You can pass GrabModeSync or GrabModeAsync.

     modifiers Specifies the set of keymasks or AnyModifier.  The
               mask is the bitwise inclusive OR of the valid key-
               mask bits.

     owner_events
               Specifies a Boolean value that indicates whether
               the pointer events are to be reported as usual or
               reported with respect to the grab window if
               selected by the event mask.

     pointer_mode
               Specifies further processing of pointer events.



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XLIB FUNCTIONS                                  XGrabButton(3x11)



               You can pass GrabModeSync or GrabModeAsync.

DESCRIPTION
     The XGrabButton function establishes a passive grab.  In the
     future, the pointer is actively grabbed (as for XGrab-
     Pointer), the last-pointer-grab time is set to the time at
     which the button was pressed (as transmitted in the But-
     tonPress event), and the ButtonPress event is reported if
     all of the following conditions are true:

     +o    The pointer is not grabbed, and the specified button is
          logically pressed when the specified modifier keys are
          logically down, and no other buttons or modifier keys
          are logically down.

     +o    The grab_window contains the pointer.

     +o    The confine_to window (if any) is viewable.

     +o    A passive grab on the same button/key combination does
          not exist on any ancestor of grab_window.

     The interpretation of the remaining arguments is as for
     XGrabPointer.  The active grab is terminated automatically
     when the logical state of the pointer has all buttons
     released (independent of the state of the logical modifier
     keys), at which point a ButtonRelease event is reported to
     the grabbing window.

     Note that the logical state of a device (as seen by client
     applications) may lag the physical state if device event
     processing is frozen.

     This request overrides all previous grabs by the same client
     on the same button/key combinations on the same window.  A
     modifiers of AnyModifier is equivalent to issuing the grab
     request for all possible modifier combinations (including
     the combination of no modifiers). It is not required that
     all modifiers specified have currently assigned KeyCodes.  A
     button of AnyButton is equivalent to issuing the request for
     all possible buttons.  Otherwise, it is not required that
     the specified button currently be assigned to a physical
     button.

     If some other client has already issued a XGrabButton with
     the same button/key combination on the same window, a BadAc-
     cess error results.  When using AnyModifier or AnyButton,
     the request fails completely, and a BadAccess error results
     (no grabs are established) if there is a conflicting grab
     for any combination.  XGrabButton has no effect on an active
     grab.




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XLIB FUNCTIONS                                  XGrabButton(3x11)



     XGrabButton can generate BadCursor, BadValue, and BadWindow
     errors.

     The XUngrabButton function releases the passive button/key
     combination on the specified window if it was grabbed by
     this client.  A modifiers of AnyModifier is equivalent to
     issuing the ungrab request for all possible modifier combi-
     nations, including the combination of no modifiers.  A but-
     ton of AnyButton is equivalent to issuing the request for
     all possible buttons.  XUngrabButton has no effect on an
     active grab.

     XUngrabButton can generate BadValue and BadWindow errors.

DIAGNOSTICS
     BadCursor A value for a Cursor argument does not name a
               defined Cursor.

     BadValue  Some numeric value falls outside the range of
               values accepted by the request.  Unless a specific
               range is specified for an argument, the full range
               defined by the argument's type is accepted.  Any
               argument defined as a set of alternatives can gen-
               erate this error.

     BadWindow A value for a Window argument does not name a
               defined Window.

SEE ALSO
     XAllowEvents(3x11), XGrabPointer(3x11), XGrabKey(3x11),
     XGrabKeyboard(3x11),
     Xlib - C Language X Interface


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | x11/library/libx11          |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Interface Stability         | Committed                   |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | MT-Level                    | See XInitThreads(3X11)      |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|








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