+/**
+ * @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);
+