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XKB
XKB is the basic
keyboard
mapping package for
X
. It's used to define
keyboard layouts
.
The configuration files for XKB are apparently located under
/usr/share/X11/xkb
The XKB equivalent of
xmodmap
is
xkbcomp
.
Components
A keyboard layout is defined by five components
Keycodes: the mapping of a keyboard's
scancode
to a symbolic name.
Types
Compat
Symbols
Geometry
Parameters
XKB Parameters are:
XkbRules
XkbModel
XkbLayout
XkbVariant
XkbOptions
TODO
xkbprint
See also
/var/lib/xkb
/usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h
contains a list of
keysyms
(without the
XK_
prefix).
Links
Kamil Toman, Ivan U. Pascal:
The XKB Configuration guide
,
The complete XKB-specification
Doug Palmer:
An Unreliable Guide to XKB Configuration
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_KeyBoard_extension
http://pascal.tsu.ru/en/xkb/
ISO 9995
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