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| From | Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ... |
| Date | 2021-07-01 19:30 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <Cw8FH-1B1-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 12:46:01PM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Given the baseline option a user chooses as "language" during > installation, the codes sent by the keyboard should be interpreted. > There should be files with the associations of (unicode) numbers and > keys on a keyboard. I don't think that information is "secret" in any > way. Where can I find those files? https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard This points to the configuration file /etc/default/keyboard. That points to the keyboard(5) man page. Which in turn points to the following resources: http://www.xfree86.org/current/XKB-Config.html https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_KeyBoard_extension http://pascal.tsu.ru/en/xkb/ http://www.charvolant.org/~doug/xkb/ http://xfree86.org/current/XKBproto.pdf The Arch wiki page points me to the xkbcomp(1) command, which tells me that keymaps are stored in a compiled form, and stored within the X server's memory. You can use xkbcomp to dump this to a file, and then inspect the file. Of course this does not tell us where the files normally live on the system, to be slurped up by the X server as it's beginning its lifespan. While looking for such files, which I did not quite find, I *did* find /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us which looks relevant. At least for me, since my keyboard is configured to have XKBLAYOUT="us".
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Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2021-07-01 08:10 +0200
Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ... Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2021-07-01 09:40 +0200
Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-07-01 16:50 +0200
Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2021-07-01 18:50 +0200
Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ... Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-01 19:30 +0200
Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-07-01 23:00 +0200
Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2021-07-02 08:30 +0200
Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ... Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-02 13:40 +0200
Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2021-07-02 17:40 +0200
Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2021-07-03 03:00 +0200
Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-07-04 17:30 +0200
Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ... <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-07-04 17:40 +0200
Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2021-07-04 21:40 +0200
Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ... Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-04 21:40 +0200
Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-07-05 07:00 +0200
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