GdkDisplay

GdkDisplay — Controls a set of GdkScreens and their associated input devices

Synopsis

#include <gdk/gdk.h>

                    GdkDisplay;
GdkDisplay *        gdk_display_open                    (const gchar *display_name);
GdkDisplay *        gdk_display_get_default             (void);
const gchar *       gdk_display_get_name                (GdkDisplay *display);
gint                gdk_display_get_n_screens           (GdkDisplay *display);
GdkScreen *         gdk_display_get_screen              (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         gint screen_num);
GdkScreen *         gdk_display_get_default_screen      (GdkDisplay *display);
GdkDeviceManager *  gdk_display_get_device_manager      (GdkDisplay *display);
void                gdk_display_pointer_ungrab          (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         guint32 time_);
void                gdk_display_keyboard_ungrab         (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         guint32 time_);
gboolean            gdk_display_pointer_is_grabbed      (GdkDisplay *display);
gboolean            gdk_display_device_is_grabbed       (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         GdkDevice *device);
void                gdk_display_beep                    (GdkDisplay *display);
void                gdk_display_sync                    (GdkDisplay *display);
void                gdk_display_flush                   (GdkDisplay *display);
void                gdk_display_close                   (GdkDisplay *display);
gboolean            gdk_display_is_closed               (GdkDisplay *display);
GdkEvent *          gdk_display_get_event               (GdkDisplay *display);
GdkEvent *          gdk_display_peek_event              (GdkDisplay *display);
void                gdk_display_put_event               (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         const GdkEvent *event);
gboolean            gdk_display_has_pending             (GdkDisplay *display);
void                gdk_display_set_double_click_time   (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         guint msec);
void                gdk_display_set_double_click_distance
                                                        (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         guint distance);
void                gdk_display_get_pointer             (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         GdkScreen **screen,
                                                         gint *x,
                                                         gint *y,
                                                         GdkModifierType *mask);
GList *             gdk_display_list_devices            (GdkDisplay *display);
GdkWindow *         gdk_display_get_window_at_pointer   (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         gint *win_x,
                                                         gint *win_y);
void                gdk_display_warp_pointer            (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         GdkScreen *screen,
                                                         gint x,
                                                         gint y);
gboolean            gdk_display_supports_cursor_color   (GdkDisplay *display);
gboolean            gdk_display_supports_cursor_alpha   (GdkDisplay *display);
guint               gdk_display_get_default_cursor_size (GdkDisplay *display);
void                gdk_display_get_maximal_cursor_size (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         guint *width,
                                                         guint *height);
GdkWindow *         gdk_display_get_default_group       (GdkDisplay *display);
gboolean            gdk_display_supports_selection_notification
                                                        (GdkDisplay *display);
gboolean            gdk_display_request_selection_notification
                                                        (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         GdkAtom selection);
gboolean            gdk_display_supports_clipboard_persistence
                                                        (GdkDisplay *display);
void                gdk_display_store_clipboard         (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         GdkWindow *clipboard_window,
                                                         guint32 time_,
                                                         const GdkAtom *targets,
                                                         gint n_targets);
gboolean            gdk_display_supports_shapes         (GdkDisplay *display);
gboolean            gdk_display_supports_input_shapes   (GdkDisplay *display);
gboolean            gdk_display_supports_composite      (GdkDisplay *display);
GdkAppLaunchContext * gdk_display_get_app_launch_context
                                                        (GdkDisplay *display);
void                gdk_display_notify_startup_complete (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         const gchar *startup_id);

Object Hierarchy

  GObject
   +----GdkDisplay

Signals

  "closed"                                         : Run Last
  "opened"                                         : Run Last

Description

GdkDisplay objects purpose are two fold:

  • To manage and provide information about input devices (pointers and keyboards)
  • To manage and provide information about the available GdkScreens

GdkDisplay objects are the GDK representation of an X Display, which can be described as a workstation consisting of a keyboard, a pointing device (such as a mouse) and one or more screens. It is used to open and keep track of various GdkScreen objects currently instantiated by the application. It is also used to access the keyboard(s) and mouse pointer(s) of the display.

Most of the input device handling has been factored out into the separate GdkDeviceManager object. Every display has a device manager, which you can obtain using gdk_display_get_device_manager().

Details

GdkDisplay

typedef struct _GdkDisplay GdkDisplay;

gdk_display_open ()

GdkDisplay *        gdk_display_open                    (const gchar *display_name);

Opens a display.

display_name :

 the name of the display to open

Returns :

 a GdkDisplay, or NULL if the display could not be opened. [transfer none]

Since 2.2

gdk_display_get_default ()

GdkDisplay *        gdk_display_get_default             (void);

Gets the default GdkDisplay. This is a convenience function for gdk_display_manager_get_default_display (gdk_display_manager_get()).

Returns :

 a GdkDisplay, or NULL if there is no default display. [transfer none]

Since 2.2

gdk_display_get_name ()

const gchar *       gdk_display_get_name                (GdkDisplay *display);

Gets the name of the display.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 a string representing the display name. This string is owned by GDK and should not be modified or freed.

Since 2.2

gdk_display_get_n_screens ()

gint                gdk_display_get_n_screens           (GdkDisplay *display);

Gets the number of screen managed by the display.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 number of screens.

Since 2.2

gdk_display_get_screen ()

GdkScreen *         gdk_display_get_screen              (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         gint screen_num);

Returns a screen object for one of the screens of the display.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

screen_num :

 the screen number

Returns :

 the GdkScreen object. [transfer none]

Since 2.2

gdk_display_get_default_screen ()

GdkScreen *         gdk_display_get_default_screen      (GdkDisplay *display);

Get the default GdkScreen for display.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 the default GdkScreen object for display. [transfer none]

Since 2.2

gdk_display_get_device_manager ()

GdkDeviceManager *  gdk_display_get_device_manager      (GdkDisplay *display);

Returns the GdkDeviceManager associated to display.

display :

 a GdkDisplay.

Returns :

 A GdkDeviceManager, or NULL. This memory is owned by GDK and must not be freed or unreferenced. [transfer none]

Since 3.0

gdk_display_pointer_ungrab ()

void                gdk_display_pointer_ungrab          (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         guint32 time_);

Warning

gdk_display_pointer_ungrab has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code. Use gdk_device_ungrab(), together with gdk_device_grab() instead.

Release any pointer grab.

display :

 a GdkDisplay.

time_ :

 a timestap (e.g. GDK_CURRENT_TIME).

Since 2.2

gdk_display_keyboard_ungrab ()

void                gdk_display_keyboard_ungrab         (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         guint32 time_);

Warning

gdk_display_keyboard_ungrab has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code. Use gdk_device_ungrab(), together with gdk_device_grab() instead.

Release any keyboard grab

display :

 a GdkDisplay.

time_ :

 a timestap (e.g GDK_CURRENT_TIME).

Since 2.2

gdk_display_pointer_is_grabbed ()

gboolean            gdk_display_pointer_is_grabbed      (GdkDisplay *display);

Warning

gdk_display_pointer_is_grabbed has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code. Use gdk_display_device_is_grabbed() instead.

Test if the pointer is grabbed.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 TRUE if an active X pointer grab is in effect

Since 2.2

gdk_display_device_is_grabbed ()

gboolean            gdk_display_device_is_grabbed       (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         GdkDevice *device);

Returns TRUE if there is an ongoing grab on device for display.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

device :

 a GdkDevice

Returns :

 TRUE if there is a grab in effect for device.

gdk_display_beep ()

void                gdk_display_beep                    (GdkDisplay *display);

Emits a short beep on display

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Since 2.2

gdk_display_sync ()

void                gdk_display_sync                    (GdkDisplay *display);

Flushes any requests queued for the windowing system and waits until all requests have been handled. This is often used for making sure that the display is synchronized with the current state of the program. Calling gdk_display_sync() before gdk_error_trap_pop() makes sure that any errors generated from earlier requests are handled before the error trap is removed.

This is most useful for X11. On windowing systems where requests are handled synchronously, this function will do nothing.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Since 2.2

gdk_display_flush ()

void                gdk_display_flush                   (GdkDisplay *display);

Flushes any requests queued for the windowing system; this happens automatically when the main loop blocks waiting for new events, but if your application is drawing without returning control to the main loop, you may need to call this function explicitely. A common case where this function needs to be called is when an application is executing drawing commands from a thread other than the thread where the main loop is running.

This is most useful for X11. On windowing systems where requests are handled synchronously, this function will do nothing.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Since 2.4

gdk_display_close ()

void                gdk_display_close                   (GdkDisplay *display);

Closes the connection to the windowing system for the given display, and cleans up associated resources.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Since 2.2

gdk_display_is_closed ()

gboolean            gdk_display_is_closed               (GdkDisplay *display);

Finds out if the display has been closed.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 TRUE if the display is closed.

Since 2.22

gdk_display_get_event ()

GdkEvent *          gdk_display_get_event               (GdkDisplay *display);

Gets the next GdkEvent to be processed for display, fetching events from the windowing system if necessary.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 the next GdkEvent to be processed, or NULL if no events are pending. The returned GdkEvent should be freed with gdk_event_free().

Since 2.2

gdk_display_peek_event ()

GdkEvent *          gdk_display_peek_event              (GdkDisplay *display);

Gets a copy of the first GdkEvent in the display's event queue, without removing the event from the queue. (Note that this function will not get more events from the windowing system. It only checks the events that have already been moved to the GDK event queue.)

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 a copy of the first GdkEvent on the event queue, or NULL if no events are in the queue. The returned GdkEvent should be freed with gdk_event_free().

Since 2.2

gdk_display_put_event ()

void                gdk_display_put_event               (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         const GdkEvent *event);

Appends a copy of the given event onto the front of the event queue for display.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

event :

 a GdkEvent.

Since 2.2

gdk_display_has_pending ()

gboolean            gdk_display_has_pending             (GdkDisplay *display);

Returns whether the display has events that are waiting to be processed.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 TRUE if there are events ready to be processed.

Since 3.0

gdk_display_set_double_click_time ()

void                gdk_display_set_double_click_time   (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         guint msec);

Sets the double click time (two clicks within this time interval count as a double click and result in a GDK_2BUTTON_PRESS event). Applications should not set this, it is a global user-configured setting.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

msec :

 double click time in milliseconds (thousandths of a second)

Since 2.2

gdk_display_set_double_click_distance ()

void                gdk_display_set_double_click_distance
                                                        (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         guint distance);

Sets the double click distance (two clicks within this distance count as a double click and result in a GDK_2BUTTON_PRESS event). See also gdk_display_set_double_click_time(). Applications should not set this, it is a global user-configured setting.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

distance :

 distance in pixels

Since 2.4

gdk_display_get_pointer ()

void                gdk_display_get_pointer             (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         GdkScreen **screen,
                                                         gint *x,
                                                         gint *y,
                                                         GdkModifierType *mask);

Warning

gdk_display_get_pointer has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code. Use gdk_device_get_position() instead.

Gets the current location of the pointer and the current modifier mask for a given display.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

screen :

 location to store the screen that the cursor is on, or NULL. [out][allow-none][transfer none]

x :

 location to store root window X coordinate of pointer, or NULL. [out][allow-none]

y :

 location to store root window Y coordinate of pointer, or NULL. [out][allow-none]

mask :

 location to store current modifier mask, or NULL. [out][allow-none]

Since 2.2

gdk_display_list_devices ()

GList *             gdk_display_list_devices            (GdkDisplay *display);

Warning

gdk_display_list_devices has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code. Use gdk_device_manager_list_devices() instead.

Returns the list of available input devices attached to display. The list is statically allocated and should not be freed.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 a list of GdkDevice. [transfer none][element-type GdkDevice]

Since 2.2

gdk_display_get_window_at_pointer ()

GdkWindow *         gdk_display_get_window_at_pointer   (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         gint *win_x,
                                                         gint *win_y);

Warning

gdk_display_get_window_at_pointer has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code. Use gdk_device_get_window_at_position() instead.

Obtains the window underneath the mouse pointer, returning the location of the pointer in that window in win_x, win_y for screen. Returns NULL if the window under the mouse pointer is not known to GDK (for example, belongs to another application).

display :

 a GdkDisplay

win_x :

 return location for x coordinate of the pointer location relative to the window origin, or NULL. [out][allow-none]

win_y :

 return location for y coordinate of the pointer location relative & to the window origin, or NULL. [out][allow-none]

Returns :

 the window under the mouse pointer, or NULL. [transfer none]

Since 2.2

gdk_display_warp_pointer ()

void                gdk_display_warp_pointer            (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         GdkScreen *screen,
                                                         gint x,
                                                         gint y);

Warning

gdk_display_warp_pointer has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code. Use gdk_device_warp() instead.

Warps the pointer of display to the point x,y on the screen screen, unless the pointer is confined to a window by a grab, in which case it will be moved as far as allowed by the grab. Warping the pointer creates events as if the user had moved the mouse instantaneously to the destination.

Note that the pointer should normally be under the control of the user. This function was added to cover some rare use cases like keyboard navigation support for the color picker in the GtkColorSelectionDialog.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

screen :

 the screen of display to warp the pointer to

x :

 the x coordinate of the destination

y :

 the y coordinate of the destination

Since 2.8

gdk_display_supports_cursor_color ()

gboolean            gdk_display_supports_cursor_color   (GdkDisplay *display);

Returns TRUE if multicolored cursors are supported on display. Otherwise, cursors have only a forground and a background color.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 whether cursors can have multiple colors.

Since 2.4

gdk_display_supports_cursor_alpha ()

gboolean            gdk_display_supports_cursor_alpha   (GdkDisplay *display);

Returns TRUE if cursors can use an 8bit alpha channel on display. Otherwise, cursors are restricted to bilevel alpha (i.e. a mask).

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 whether cursors can have alpha channels.

Since 2.4

gdk_display_get_default_cursor_size ()

guint               gdk_display_get_default_cursor_size (GdkDisplay *display);

Returns the default size to use for cursors on display.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 the default cursor size.

Since 2.4

gdk_display_get_maximal_cursor_size ()

void                gdk_display_get_maximal_cursor_size (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         guint *width,
                                                         guint *height);

Gets the maximal size to use for cursors on display.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

width :

 the return location for the maximal cursor width. [out]

height :

 the return location for the maximal cursor height. [out]

Since 2.4

gdk_display_get_default_group ()

GdkWindow *         gdk_display_get_default_group       (GdkDisplay *display);

Returns the default group leader window for all toplevel windows on display. This window is implicitly created by GDK. See gdk_window_set_group().

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 The default group leader window for display. [transfer none]

Since 2.4

gdk_display_supports_selection_notification ()

gboolean            gdk_display_supports_selection_notification
                                                        (GdkDisplay *display);

Returns whether GdkEventOwnerChange events will be sent when the owner of a selection changes.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 whether GdkEventOwnerChange events will be sent.

Since 2.6

gdk_display_request_selection_notification ()

gboolean            gdk_display_request_selection_notification
                                                        (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         GdkAtom selection);

Request GdkEventOwnerChange events for ownership changes of the selection named by the given atom.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

selection :

 the GdkAtom naming the selection for which ownership change notification is requested

Returns :

 whether GdkEventOwnerChange events will be sent.

Since 2.6

gdk_display_supports_clipboard_persistence ()

gboolean            gdk_display_supports_clipboard_persistence
                                                        (GdkDisplay *display);

Returns whether the speicifed display supports clipboard persistance; i.e. if it's possible to store the clipboard data after an application has quit. On X11 this checks if a clipboard daemon is running.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 TRUE if the display supports clipboard persistance.

Since 2.6

gdk_display_store_clipboard ()

void                gdk_display_store_clipboard         (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         GdkWindow *clipboard_window,
                                                         guint32 time_,
                                                         const GdkAtom *targets,
                                                         gint n_targets);

Issues a request to the clipboard manager to store the clipboard data. On X11, this is a special program that works according to the freedesktop clipboard specification, available at http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/clipboard-manager-spec.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

clipboard_window :

 a GdkWindow belonging to the clipboard owner

time_ :

 a timestamp

targets :

 an array of targets that should be saved, or NULL if all available targets should be saved. [array length=n_targets]

n_targets :

 length of the targets array

Since 2.6

gdk_display_supports_shapes ()

gboolean            gdk_display_supports_shapes         (GdkDisplay *display);

Returns TRUE if gdk_window_shape_combine_mask() can be used to create shaped windows on display.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 TRUE if shaped windows are supported

Since 2.10

gdk_display_supports_input_shapes ()

gboolean            gdk_display_supports_input_shapes   (GdkDisplay *display);

Returns TRUE if gdk_window_input_shape_combine_mask() can be used to modify the input shape of windows on display.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 TRUE if windows with modified input shape are supported

Since 2.10

gdk_display_supports_composite ()

gboolean            gdk_display_supports_composite      (GdkDisplay *display);

Returns TRUE if gdk_window_set_composited() can be used to redirect drawing on the window using compositing.

Currently this only works on X11 with XComposite and XDamage extensions available.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 TRUE if windows may be composited.

Since 2.12

gdk_display_get_app_launch_context ()

GdkAppLaunchContext * gdk_display_get_app_launch_context
                                                        (GdkDisplay *display);

Returns a GdkAppLaunchContext suitable for launching applications on the given display.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

Returns :

 a new GdkAppLaunchContext for display. Free with g_object_unref() when done. [transfer full]

Since 3.0

gdk_display_notify_startup_complete ()

void                gdk_display_notify_startup_complete (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                         const gchar *startup_id);

Indicates to the GUI environment that the application has finished loading, using a given identifier.

GTK+ will call this function automatically for GtkWindow with custom startup-notification identifier unless gtk_window_set_auto_startup_notification() is called to disable that feature.

display :

 a GdkDisplay

startup_id :

 a startup-notification identifier, for which notification process should be completed

Since 3.0

Signal Details

The "closed" signal

void                user_function                      (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                        gboolean    is_error,
                                                        gpointer    user_data)      : Run Last

The ::closed signal is emitted when the connection to the windowing system for display is closed.

display :

 the object on which the signal is emitted

is_error :

 TRUE if the display was closed due to an error

user_data :

 user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Since 2.2

The "opened" signal

void                user_function                      (GdkDisplay *display,
                                                        gpointer    user_data)      : Run Last

The ::opened signal is emitted when the connection to the windowing system for display is opened.

display :

 the object on which the signal is emitted

user_data :

 user data set when the signal handler was connected.
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