xcb_get_selection_owner - Gets the owner of a selection

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X Version 11                                      libxcb 1.17.0                       xcb_get_selection_owner(3)

       Gets the owner of the specified selection.

       TODO: briefly explain what a selection is.

xcb_atom_error_tselection does not refer to a valid atom.

       xcb_get_selection_owner - Gets the owner of a selection

response_type
                 The type of this reply, in this case XCB_GET_SELECTION_OWNER. This field is also present in the
                 xcb_generic_reply_t and can be used to tell replies apart from each other.

       sequence  The sequence number of the last request processed by the X11 server.

       length    The length of the reply, in words (a word is 4 bytes).

       owner     The current selection owner window.

conn      The XCB connection to X11.

       selection The selection.

       Returns  an  xcb_get_selection_owner_cookie_t.  Errors have to be handled when calling the reply function
       xcb_get_selection_owner_reply.

       If you want to handle errors in the event loop instead, use xcb_get_selection_owner_unchecked.  See  xcb-requests(3) for details.

xcb-requests(3), xcb_set_selection_owner(3)

#include<xcb/xproto.h>Requestfunction

       xcb_get_selection_owner_cookie_t xcb_get_selection_owner(xcb_connection_t *conn, xcb_atom_t selection);

   Replydatastructure
       typedef struct xcb_get_selection_owner_reply_t {
           uint8_t      response_type;
           uint8_t      pad0;
           uint16_t     sequence;
           uint32_t     length;
           xcb_window_t owner;
       } xcb_get_selection_owner_reply_t;

   Replyfunction

       xcb_get_selection_owner_reply_t *xcb_get_selection_owner_reply(xcb_connection_t *conn,
              xcb_get_selection_owner_cookie_t cookie, xcb_generic_error_t **e);