ckbcomp

Langue: en

Version: 256374 (debian - 07/07/09)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

ckbcomp - compile a XKB keyboard description to a console font.

SYNOPSIS

ckbcomp [option ...] [layout [variant [option ...]]]

DESCRIPTION

The ckbcomp keymap compiler converts a description of an XKB keymap into a console keymap that can be read directly by loadkeys.

OPTIONS

-?, -help
Print a usage message and exit.
-charmap  charmap
The encoding to use. There should be an unicode ACM map for this encoding in /usr/share/consoletrans.
-Idir
Search top-level directory dir for files included by the keymap description. This option may be used multiple times. After all directories specified by -I options have been searched, /etc/console-setup/ckb, /usr/share/X11/xkb, /etc/X11/xkb and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb will be searched too.
-v level
Set level of detail for listing. level is a number from 1 to 10.
-compact
Generate a compact keymap with at most two xkb groups and two levels in each or only one xkb-group and up to four levels.

XKB KEYBOARD DESCRIPTION

The keyboard layout, variant and options components can be also specified directly on the command line. See the synopsis of the command.
-symbols name
Specifies the symbols component name of the XKB keyboard description.
-keycodes name
Specifies the keycodes component name of the XKB keyboard description.
-rules name
The name of the rules file to use.
-model name
Specifies the keyboard model used to choose the component names.
-layout name
Specifies the layout used to choose the component names.
-variant name
Specifies the layout variant used to choose the component names.
-option name
Adds an option used to choose component names.

SEE ALSO

xkbcomp(1)

AUTHOR

Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>, <zinoviev@debian.org>