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+.HP +int XCloseDisplay\^(Display *\fIdisplay\fP\^); +.SH ARGUMENTS +.IP \fIdisplay\fP 1i +Specifies the connection to the X server. +.IP \fIdisplay_name\fP 1i +Specifies the hardware display name, which determines the display +and communications domain to be used. +On a POSIX-conformant system, if the display_name is NULL, +it defaults to the value of the DISPLAY environment variable. +.IN "Environment" "DISPLAY" +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.ZN XOpenDisplay +function returns a +.ZN Display +structure that serves as the +connection to the X server and that contains all the information +about that X server. +.ZN XOpenDisplay +connects your application to the X server through TCP +or DECnet communications protocols, +or through some local inter-process communication protocol. +.IN "Protocol" "TCP" +.IN "Protocol" "DECnet" +If the hostname is a host machine name and a single colon (:) +separates the hostname and display number, +.ZN XOpenDisplay +connects using TCP streams. +If the hostname is not specified, +Xlib uses whatever it believes is the fastest transport. +If the hostname is a host machine name and a double colon (::) +separates the hostname and display number, +.ZN XOpenDisplay +connects using DECnet. +A single X server can support any or all of these transport mechanisms +simultaneously. +A particular Xlib implementation can support many more of these transport +mechanisms. +.LP +.IN "Display" +If successful, +.ZN XOpenDisplay +returns a pointer to a +.ZN Display +structure, +which is defined in +.hN X11/Xlib.h . +If +.ZN XOpenDisplay +does not succeed, it returns NULL. +After a successful call to +.ZN XOpenDisplay , +all of the screens in the display can be used by the client. +The screen number specified in the display_name argument is returned +by the +.ZN DefaultScreen +macro (or the +.ZN XDefaultScreen +function). +You can access elements of the +.ZN Display +and +.ZN Screen +structures only by using the information macros or functions. +For information about using macros and functions to obtain information from +the +.ZN Display +structure, +see section 2.2.1. +.LP +The +.ZN XCloseDisplay +function closes the connection to the X server for the display specified in the +.ZN Display +structure and destroys all windows, resource IDs +.Pn ( Window , +.ZN Font , +.ZN Pixmap , +.ZN Colormap , +.ZN Cursor , +and +.ZN GContext ), +or other resources that the client has created +on this display, unless the close-down mode of the resource has been changed +(see +.ZN XSetCloseDownMode ). +Therefore, these windows, resource IDs, and other resources should never be +referenced again or an error will be generated. +Before exiting, you should call +.ZN XCloseDisplay +explicitly so that any pending errors are reported as +.ZN XCloseDisplay +performs a final +.ZN XSync +operation. +.IN "Resource IDs" +.IN "XCloseDisplay" +.LP +.ZN XCloseDisplay +can generate a +.ZN BadGC +error. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +AllPlanes(3X11), +XFlush(3X11), +XSetCloseDownMode(3X11) +.br +\fI\*(xL\fP |