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Date : 2025-04-08T16:21:46
keysyms: Pad Unicode keysyms only up to 4 digits Previously there was a distinction between keysyms with code points in BMP and the others: the former used a 4-padding while the latter used a 8-padding: e.g `U0001` vs `U00010000`. This is unnecessary and makes the reading harder. Let’s use the same padding for all: `U0001` and `U10000`. Parsing remains unchanged and would parse both paddings. Also added a test to check no explicit name can clash with Unicode notation.
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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 registry library for listing available keyboard layouts.
Quick Guide
- Introduction to XKB: to learn the essentials of XKB.
- User-configuration: instructions to add a custom layout or option.
- Quick Guide: introduction on how to use this library.
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 buildComplete list of user options
@include meson_options.txtAPI
While libxkbcommon’s API is somewhat derived from the classic XKB API as found in
X11/extensions/XKB.hand friends, it has been substantially reworked to expose fewer internal details to clients.See the API Documentation.
Dataset
libxkbcommon does not distribute a keyboard layout 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. Further information on xkeyboard-config is available at its homepage and at its repository.
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.orgxkbcommon is maintained in git at
https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommonPatches 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:
Credits
Many thanks are due to Dan Nicholson for his heroic work in getting xkbcommon off the ground initially.