==== Acquiring and Releasing Displays

On some platforms, access to displays is limited to a single process or
native driver instance.
On such platforms, some or all of the displays may not be available to
Vulkan if they are already in use by a native windowing system or other
application.

ifdef::VK_EXT_acquire_xlib_display[]
include::../VK_EXT_acquire_xlib_display/acquire_xlib_display.txt[]
endif::VK_EXT_acquire_xlib_display[]

[open,refpage='vkReleaseDisplayEXT',desc='Release access to an acquired VkDisplayKHR',type='protos']
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To release a previously acquired display, call:

include::../../api/protos/vkReleaseDisplayEXT.txt[]

  * pname:physicalDevice The physical device the display is on.
  * pname:display The display to release control of.

include::../../validity/protos/vkReleaseDisplayEXT.txt[]
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