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unpost_menu(3) -- write or erase menus from associated subwindows
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The function post_menu displays a menu to its associated subwindow. To trigger physical display of the subwindow, use refresh or some equivalent curses routine (the implicit doupdate triggered by an c... |
unsetenv(3) -- environment variable functions
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These functions set, unset, and fetch environment variables from the host environment list. For compatibility with differing environment conventions, the given arguments name and value may be appended... |
untouchwin(3) -- curses refresh control routines
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The touchwin and touchline routines throw away all optimization information about which parts of the window have been touched, by pretending that the entire window has been drawn on. This is sometimes... |
unvis(3) -- decode a visual representation of characters
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The unvis() and strunvis() functions are used to decode a visual representation of characters, as produced by the vis(3) function, back into the original form. unvis() is called with successive charac... |
update_panels(3) -- panel stack extension for curses
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Panels are curses(3) windows with the added feature of depth. Panel functions allow the use of stacked windows and ensure the proper portions of each window and the curses stdscr window are hidden or ... |
usbhid(3) -- USB HID access routines
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The usbhid library provides routines to extract data from USB Human Interface Devices. INTRODUCTION [Toc] [Back] USB HID devices send and receive data laid out in a device dependent way. The usb... |
user_from_uid(3) -- cache password and group entries
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The user_from_uid() function returns the user name associated with the argument uid. The user name is cached so that multiple calls with the same uid do not require additional calls to getpwuid(3). If... |
use_default_colors(3) -- use terminal's default colors
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The use_default_colors() and assume_default_colors() functions are extensions to the curses library. They are used with terminals that support ISO 6429 color, or equivalent. These terminals allow the ... |
use_env(3) -- miscellaneous curses utility routines
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The unctrl macro expands to a character string which is a printable representation of the character c. Control characters are displayed in the ^X notation. Printing characters are displayed as is. The... |
use_extended_names(3) -- miscellaneous curses extensions
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These functions are extensions to the curses library which do not fit easily into other categories. Use curses_version() to get the version number, including patch level of the library, e.g., 5.0.1999... |
usleep(3) -- suspend execution for interval of microseconds
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The usleep() function suspends execution of the calling process for microseconds microseconds of time. System activity or time spent in processing the call may lengthen the sleep slightly. This routin... |
utime(3) -- set file times
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This interface is obsoleted by utimes(2). The utime() function sets the access and modification times of the named file. If timep is NULL, the access and modification times are set to the current time... |
uucplock(3) -- acquire and release control of a serial device
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The uu_lock() function attempts to create a lock file called /var/spool/lock/LCK.. with a suffix given by the passed ttyname. If the file already exists, it is expected to contain the process ID of th... |