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libxkbcommon

libxkbcommon is a keyboard keymap compiler and support library which processes a reduced subset of keymaps as defined by the XKB (X Keyboard Extension) specification. It also contains a module for handling Compose and dead keys and a separate library for listing available keyboard layouts.

Quick Guide

See Quick Guide.

Building

libxkbcommon is built with Meson:

meson setup build
ninja -C build
ninja -C build test  # Run the tests.

To build for use with Wayland, you can disable X11 support while still using the X11 keyboard configuration resource files thusly:

meson setup build \
    -Denable-x11=false \
    -Dxkb-config-root=/usr/share/X11/xkb \
    -Dx-locale-root=/usr/share/X11/locale
ninja -C build

API

While libxkbcommon’s API is somewhat derived from the classic XKB API as found in X11/extensions/XKB.h and friends, it has been substantially reworked to expose fewer internal details to clients.

See the API Documentation.

Dataset

libxkbcommon does not distribute a keymap dataset itself, other than for testing purposes. The most common dataset is xkeyboard-config, which is used by all current distributions for their X11 XKB data. More information on xkeyboard-config is available here:

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig

The dataset for Compose is distributed in libX11, as part of the X locale data.

Relation to X11

See Compatibility notes.

Development

An extremely rudimentary homepage can be found at

https://xkbcommon.org

xkbcommon is maintained in git at

https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon

Patches are always welcome, and may be sent to either

<xorg-devel@lists.x.org> or <wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>

or in a GitHub pull request.

Bug reports (and usage questions) are also welcome, and may be filed at GitHub.

The maintainers are

Daniel Stone daniel@fooishbar.org
Ran Benita ran@unusedvar.com

Credits

Many thanks are due to Dan Nicholson for his heroic work in getting xkbcommon off the ground initially.

Source

README.md

# libxkbcommon

libxkbcommon is a keyboard keymap compiler and support library which
processes a reduced subset of keymaps as defined by the XKB (X Keyboard
Extension) specification.  It also contains a module for handling Compose
and dead keys and a separate library for listing available keyboard layouts.

## Quick Guide

See [Quick Guide](doc/quick-guide.md).

## Building

libxkbcommon is built with [Meson](http://mesonbuild.com/):

    meson setup build
    ninja -C build
    ninja -C build test  # Run the tests.

To build for use with Wayland, you can disable X11 support while still
using the X11 keyboard configuration resource files thusly:

    meson setup build \
        -Denable-x11=false \
        -Dxkb-config-root=/usr/share/X11/xkb \
        -Dx-locale-root=/usr/share/X11/locale
    ninja -C build

## API

While libxkbcommon's API is somewhat derived from the classic XKB API as found
in X11/extensions/XKB.h and friends, it has been substantially reworked to
expose fewer internal details to clients.

See the [API Documentation](https://xkbcommon.org/doc/current/modules.html).

## Dataset

libxkbcommon does not distribute a keymap dataset itself, other than for
testing purposes.  The most common dataset is xkeyboard-config, which is used
by all current distributions for their X11 XKB data.  More information on
xkeyboard-config is available here:
    https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig

The dataset for Compose is distributed in libX11, as part of the X locale
data.

## Relation to X11

See [Compatibility](doc/compat.md) notes.

## Development

An extremely rudimentary homepage can be found at
    https://xkbcommon.org

xkbcommon is maintained in git at
    https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon

Patches are always welcome, and may be sent to either
    <xorg-devel@lists.x.org> or <wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
or in a [GitHub](https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon) pull request.

Bug reports (and usage questions) are also welcome, and may be filed at
[GitHub](https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues).

The maintainers are
- Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
- Ran Benita <ran@unusedvar.com>

## Credits

Many thanks are due to Dan Nicholson for his heroic work in getting xkbcommon
off the ground initially.

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