gdk_display_open ()

GdkDisplay *
gdk_display_open (const gchar *display_name);

Opens a display.

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()).

Since: 2.2

gdk_display_get_name ()

const gchar *
gdk_display_get_name (GdkDisplay *display);

Gets the name of the display.

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 .

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.

Since: 2.2

gdk_display_get_default_screen ()

GdkScreen *
gdk_display_get_default_screen (GdkDisplay *display);

Get the default GdkScreen for display .

Since: 2.2

gdk_display_pointer_ungrab ()

void
gdk_display_pointer_ungrab (GdkDisplay *display,
                            guint32 time_);

Release any pointer grab.

Since: 2.2

gdk_display_keyboard_ungrab ()

void
gdk_display_keyboard_ungrab (GdkDisplay *display,
                             guint32 time_);

Release any keyboard grab

Since: 2.2

gdk_display_pointer_is_grabbed ()

gboolean
gdk_display_pointer_is_grabbed (GdkDisplay *display);

Test if the pointer is grabbed.

Since: 2.2

gdk_display_beep ()

void
gdk_display_beep (GdkDisplay *display);

Emits a short beep on display

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.

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.

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.

Since: 2.2

gdk_display_is_closed ()

gboolean
gdk_display_is_closed (GdkDisplay *display);

Finds out if the display has been closed.

Since: 2.22

gdk_display_list_devices ()

GList *
gdk_display_list_devices (GdkDisplay *display);

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

Since: 2.2

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.

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.)

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 .

Since: 2.2

gdk_display_add_client_message_filter ()

void
gdk_display_add_client_message_filter (GdkDisplay *display,
                                       GdkAtom message_type,
                                       GdkFilterFunc func,
                                       gpointer data);

Adds a filter to be called when X ClientMessage events are received. See gdk_window_add_filter() if you are interested in filtering other types of events.

Since: 2.2

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.

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.

Since: 2.4

gdk_display_get_pointer ()

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

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

Since: 2.2

gdk_display_get_window_at_pointer ()

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

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).

Since: 2.2

gdk_display_set_pointer_hooks ()

GdkDisplayPointerHooks *
gdk_display_set_pointer_hooks (GdkDisplay *display,
                               const GdkDisplayPointerHooks *new_hooks);

This function allows for hooking into the operation of getting the current location of the pointer on a particular display. This is only useful for such low-level tools as an event recorder. Applications should never have any reason to use this facility.

Since: 2.2

gdk_display_warp_pointer ()

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

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.

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.

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).

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 .

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 .

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().

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.

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.

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.

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

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 .

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 .

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.

Since: 2.12

GdkDisplay

typedef struct _GdkDisplay GdkDisplay;

The GdkDisplay struct is the GDK representation of an X display. All its fields are private and should not be accessed directly.

Since: 2.2

struct GdkDisplayPointerHooks

struct GdkDisplayPointerHooks {
  void (*get_pointer)              (GdkDisplay      *display,
				    GdkScreen      **screen,
				    gint            *x,
				    gint            *y,
				    GdkModifierType *mask);
  GdkWindow* (*window_get_pointer) (GdkDisplay      *display,
				    GdkWindow       *window,
				    gint            *x,
				    gint            *y,
				    GdkModifierType *mask);
  GdkWindow* (*window_at_pointer)  (GdkDisplay      *display,
				    gint            *win_x,
				    gint            *win_y);
};

A table of pointers to functions for getting quantities related to the current pointer position. Each GdkDisplay has a table of this type, which can be set using gdk_display_set_pointer_hooks().

This is only useful for such low-level tools as an event recorder. Applications should never have any reason to use this facility

Since: 2.2

The “closed” signal

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

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

Flags: Run Last

Since: 2.2