Linux "ckbcomp" Command Line Options and Examples

compile a XKB keyboard description to a keymap suitable for loadkeys or kbdcontrol

The ckbcomp keymap compiler converts a description of an XKB keyboard layout into a console keymap that can be read directly by load‐ keys(1) or kbdcontrol(1). On its standard output ckbcomp dumps the generated keyboard definition.

Usage:

ckbcomp [OPTION...] [XKBLAYOUT [XKBVARIANT [XKBOPTIONS]...]]

Command Line Options:

Print a usage message and exit.


                            ckbcomp -? ...

-charmap

The encoding to use for the output keymap. There should be an character mapping table defining this encoding in/usr/share/consoletrans. Definitions of the following charmaps are provided: ARMSCII-8, CP1251, CP1255, CP1256, GEORGIAN-ACADEMY, GEORGIAN-PS, IBM1133, ISIRI-3342, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7,ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-10, ISO-8859-11, ISO-8859-13, ISO-8859-14, ISO-8859-15, ISO-8859-16, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, TIS-620and VISCII.


                            ckbcomp -charmap ...

-v

Set level of detail for listing. The argument level must be a number from 1 to 10.


                            ckbcomp -v ...

-compact

Generate a compact keymap with at most two xkb groups and two levels in each or only one xkb-group and up to four levels.


                            ckbcomp -compact ...

-freebsd

Generate a keymap for FreeBSD.


                            ckbcomp -freebsd ...

-backspace

Specifies the behaviour of the <BackSpace> and <Delete> keys. Value bs specifies VT100-conformant behaviour: <BackSpace> willgenerate ^H (ASCII BS) and <Delete> will generate ^? (ASCII DEL). Value del specifies VT220-conformant behavior: <BackSpace>will generate ^? (ASCII DEL) and <Delete> will generate a special function sequence.XKB Keyboard DescriptionThe keyboard layout, variant and options components can be also specified directly on the command line. See the synopsis of the com‐mand.


                            ckbcomp -backspace ...

-symbols

Specifies the symbols component name of the XKB keyboard description.


                            ckbcomp -symbols ...

-keycodes

Specifies the keycodes component name of the XKB keyboard description.


                            ckbcomp -keycodes ...

-rules

The name of the rules file to use.


                            ckbcomp -rules ...

-model

Specifies the keyboard model used to choose the component names.


                            ckbcomp -model ...

-layout

Specifies the layout used to choose the component names.


                            ckbcomp -layout ...

-variant

Specifies the layout variant used to choose the component names.


                            ckbcomp -variant ...

-option

Adds an option used to choose component names.FILES/usr/share/consoletrans/etc/console-setup/ckb/usr/share/X11/xkb/etc/X11/xkbNOTESIf the option -freebsd is used together with -backspace del, then the key <Delete> will generate the special code fkey70. It is yourresponsibility to assign the appropriate sequence to this special code by using the following command:kbdcontrol -f 70 "`printf '\033[3~'`"


                            ckbcomp -option ...