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5.4 KiB
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5.4 KiB
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.\" Digital Equipment Corporation
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.\" Portions Copyright \(co 1990, 1991 by
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.\" Tektronix, Inc.
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.ds xT X Toolkit Intrinsics \- C Language Interface
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.ds xW Athena X Widgets \- C Language X Toolkit Interface
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.ds xL Xlib \- C Language X Interface
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.ds xC Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual
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.TH XOpenDisplay __libmansuffix__ __xorgversion__ "XLIB FUNCTIONS"
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.SH NAME
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XOpenDisplay, XCloseDisplay \- connect or disconnect to X server
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.SH SYNTAX
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.HP
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Display *XOpenDisplay\^(\^char *\fIdisplay_name\fP\^);
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.HP
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int XCloseDisplay\^(Display *\fIdisplay\fP\^);
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.SH ARGUMENTS
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.IP \fIdisplay\fP 1i
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Specifies the connection to the X server.
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.IP \fIdisplay_name\fP 1i
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Specifies the hardware display name, which determines the display
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and communications domain to be used.
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On a POSIX-conformant system, if the display_name is NULL,
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it defaults to the value of the DISPLAY environment variable.
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.IN "Environment" "DISPLAY"
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.B XOpenDisplay
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function returns a
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.B Display
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structure that serves as the
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connection to the X server and that contains all the information
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about that X server.
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.B XOpenDisplay
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connects your application to the X server through TCP
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or DECnet communications protocols,
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or through some local inter-process communication protocol.
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.IN "Protocol" "TCP"
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.IN "Protocol" "DECnet"
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If the hostname is a host machine name and a single colon (:)
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separates the hostname and display number,
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.B XOpenDisplay
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connects using TCP streams.
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If the hostname is not specified,
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Xlib uses whatever it believes is the fastest transport.
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If the hostname is a host machine name and a double colon (::)
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separates the hostname and display number,
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.B XOpenDisplay
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connects using DECnet.
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A single X server can support any or all of these transport mechanisms
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simultaneously.
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A particular Xlib implementation can support many more of these transport
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mechanisms.
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.LP
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.IN "Display"
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If successful,
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.B XOpenDisplay
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returns a pointer to a
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.B Display
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structure,
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which is defined in
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.hN X11/Xlib.h .
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If
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.B XOpenDisplay
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does not succeed, it returns NULL.
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After a successful call to
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.BR XOpenDisplay ,
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all of the screens in the display can be used by the client.
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The screen number specified in the display_name argument is returned
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by the
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.B DefaultScreen
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macro (or the
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.B XDefaultScreen
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function).
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You can access elements of the
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.B Display
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and
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.B Screen
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structures only by using the information macros or functions.
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For information about using macros and functions to obtain information from
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the
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.B Display
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structure,
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see section 2.2.1.
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.LP
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The
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.B XCloseDisplay
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function closes the connection to the X server for the display specified in the
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.B Display
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structure and destroys all windows, resource IDs
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.Pn ( Window ,
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.BR Font ,
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.BR Pixmap ,
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.BR Colormap ,
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.BR Cursor ,
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and
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.BR GContext ),
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or other resources that the client has created
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on this display, unless the close-down mode of the resource has been changed
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(see
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.BR XSetCloseDownMode ).
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Therefore, these windows, resource IDs, and other resources should never be
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referenced again or an error will be generated.
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Before exiting, you should call
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.B XCloseDisplay
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explicitly so that any pending errors are reported as
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.B XCloseDisplay
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performs a final
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.B XSync
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operation.
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.IN "Resource IDs"
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.IN "XCloseDisplay"
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.LP
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.B XCloseDisplay
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can generate a
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.B BadGC
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error.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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AllPlanes(__libmansuffix__),
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XFlush(__libmansuffix__),
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XSetCloseDownMode(__libmansuffix__)
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.br
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\fI\*(xL\fP
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