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README: use meson compile/test over ninja This is backend-agnostic and the recommended way to invoke compilation. This requires meson 0.55 (July 2020) and we only require 0.51 but at this point I'm expecting most users who require the README instructions will have a recent-enough meson anyway.

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
meson compile -C build
meson test -C build # 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
meson compile -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
    meson compile -C build
    meson test -C build # 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
    meson compile -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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