+/**
+ * @brief Returns the next event without reading from the connection.
+ * @param c: The connection to the X server.
+ * @return The next already queued event from the server.
+ *
+ * This is a version of xcb_poll_for_event that only examines the
+ * event queue for new events. The function doesn't try to read new
+ * events from the connection if no queued events are found.
+ *
+ * This function is useful for callers that know in advance that all
+ * interesting events have already been read from the connection. For
+ * example, callers might use xcb_wait_for_reply and be interested
+ * only of events that preceded a specific reply.
+ */
+xcb_generic_event_t *xcb_poll_for_queued_event(xcb_connection_t *c);
+
+typedef struct xcb_special_event xcb_special_event_t;
+
+/**
+ * @brief Returns the next event from a special queue
+ */
+xcb_generic_event_t *xcb_poll_for_special_event(xcb_connection_t *c,
+ xcb_special_event_t *se);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Returns the next event from a special queue, blocking until one arrives
+ */
+xcb_generic_event_t *xcb_wait_for_special_event(xcb_connection_t *c,
+ xcb_special_event_t *se);
+/**
+ * @typedef typedef struct xcb_extension_t xcb_extension_t
+ */
+typedef struct xcb_extension_t xcb_extension_t; /**< Opaque structure used as key for xcb_get_extension_data_t. */
+
+/**
+ * @brief Listen for a special event
+ */
+xcb_special_event_t *xcb_register_for_special_xge(xcb_connection_t *c,
+ xcb_extension_t *ext,
+ uint32_t eid,
+ uint32_t *stamp);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Stop listening for a special event
+ */
+void xcb_unregister_for_special_event(xcb_connection_t *c,
+ xcb_special_event_t *se);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Return the error for a request, or NULL if none can ever arrive.
+ * @param c: The connection to the X server.
+ * @param cookie: The request cookie.
+ * @return The error for the request, or NULL if none can ever arrive.
+ *
+ * The xcb_void_cookie_t cookie supplied to this function must have resulted
+ * from a call to xcb_[request_name]_checked(). This function will block
+ * until one of two conditions happens. If an error is received, it will be
+ * returned. If a reply to a subsequent request has already arrived, no error
+ * can arrive for this request, so this function will return NULL.
+ *
+ * Note that this function will perform a sync if needed to ensure that the
+ * sequence number will advance beyond that provided in cookie; this is a
+ * convenience to avoid races in determining whether the sync is needed.
+ */
+xcb_generic_error_t *xcb_request_check(xcb_connection_t *c, xcb_void_cookie_t cookie);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Discards the reply for a request.
+ * @param c: The connection to the X server.
+ * @param sequence: The request sequence number from a cookie.
+ *
+ * Discards the reply for a request. Additionally, any error generated
+ * by the request is also discarded (unless it was an _unchecked request
+ * and the error has already arrived).
+ *
+ * This function will not block even if the reply is not yet available.
+ *
+ * Note that the sequence really does have to come from an xcb cookie;
+ * this function is not designed to operate on socket-handoff replies.
+ */
+void xcb_discard_reply(xcb_connection_t *c, unsigned int sequence);