Keymap.getModifierMask

gdk.types.ModifierType getModifierMask(gdk.types.ModifierIntent intent)

Returns the modifier mask the keymap’s windowing system backend uses for a particular purpose.

Note that this function always returns real hardware modifiers, not virtual ones (e.g. it will return #GDK_MOD1_MASK rather than #GDK_META_MASK if the backend maps MOD1 to META), so there are use cases where the return value of this function has to be transformed by [gdk.keymap.Keymap.addVirtualModifiers] in order to contain the expected result.

Parameters

intent the use case for the modifier mask

Returns

the modifier mask used for intent.