Chapter 11: Event Handling Functions

• Select events

• Handle the output buffer and the event queue

• Select events from the event queue

• Send and get events

• Handle protocol errors

Note

Some toolkits use their own event-handling functions and do not allow you to interchange these event-handling functions with those in Xlib. For further information, see the documentation supplied with the toolkit.

Most applications simply are event loops: they wait for an event, decide what to do with it, execute some amount of code that results in changes to the display, and then wait for the next event.

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