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    Author : Bryce Harrington
    Date : 2016-09-15T14:31:55 

    README: Add basic build directions

In particular, highlight the use of configure flags to control locating
X11 keyboard stuff when building for Wayland.

Of particular note, if the locale root is not specified, then xkbcommon
will look for them under $prefix (i.e. /usr/local/share/X11/locale).
But unless the user has specifically installed them there, it is better
to look in the standard system location, /usr/share/X11/locale.

Otherwise, xkbcommon will error when it can't find them, e.g.:

  xkbcommon: ERROR: ~/.XCompose:4:9: failed to expand %L to the locale Compose file
  xkbcommon: ERROR: ~/.XCompose:4:12: unterminated string literal

Signed-off-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Ran Benita <ran234@gmail.com>

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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.

    Quick Guide

    See Quick Guide.

    Building

    libxkbcommon is built the typical autoconf way:

    ./autogen.sh
make

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

    ./autogen.sh --disable-x11 \
    --with-xkb-config-root=/usr/share/X11/xkb \
    --with-x-locale-root=/usr/share/X11/locale
make

    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:

    http://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

    http://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 through github.

    Bug reports are also welcome, and may be filed either at

    Bugzilla https://bugs.freedesktop.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=libxkbcommon

    or

    Github https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues

    The maintainers are

    Credits

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

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