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.TH XkbAllocKeyboard 3 "libX11 1.6.7" "X Version 11" "XKB FUNCTIONS"
.SH NAME
XkbAllocKeyboard \-  Creates a keyboard description from scratch
.SH SYNOPSIS
.HP
.B XkbDescRec XkbAllocKeyboard
.BI "(\^void\^);"
.if n .ti +5n
.if t .ti +.5i
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
Applications seldom need to directly allocate a keyboard description; calling
.I XkbGetKeyboard 
usually suffices. In the event you need to create a keyboard description from 
scratch, however, use 
.I XkbAllocKeyboard 
rather than directly calling 
.I malloc.

If 
.I XkbAllocKeyboard 
fails to allocate the keyboard description, it returns NULL. 
Otherwise, it returns a pointer to an empty keyboard description structure. The 
.I device_spec 
field will have been initialized to XkbUseCoreKbd. You may then 
either fill in the structure components or use Xkb functions to obtain values 
for the structure components from a keyboard device. 
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR malloc (3F),
.BR XkbUseCoreKbd (3),
.BR XkbGetKeyboard (3)