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+.TH SETXKBMAP __appmansuffix__ __xorgversion__
+.SH NAME
+setxkbmap
+\- set the keyboard using the X Keyboard Extension
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B setxkbmap [
+.I args
+.B ] [
+.I layout
+.B [
+.I variant
+.B [
+.I option  ...
+.B ] ] ]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.B setxkbmap
+command maps the keyboard to use the layout determined by the options
+specified on the command line.
+.P
+An XKB keymap is constructed from a number of components which are compiled
+only as needed.  The source for all of the components can be found in
+.IR __xkbconfigroot__ .
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP 8
+.B \-help
+Prints a message describing the valid input to \fIsetxkbmap\fP.
+.TP 8
+.B \-compat \fIname\fP
+Specifies the name of the compatibility map component used to construct
+a keyboard layout.
+.TP 8
+.B \-config \fIfile\fP
+Specifies the name of an XKB configuration file which describes the
+keyboard to be used.
+.TP 8
+.B \-device \fIdevice\fP
+Specifies the numeric device id of the input device to be updated with
+the new keyboard layout. If not specified, the core keyboard device of
+the X server is updated.
+.TP 8
+.B \-display \fIdisplay\fP
+Specifies the display to be updated with the new keyboard layout.
+.TP 8
+.B \-geometry \fIname\fP
+Specifies the name of the geometry component used to construct
+a keyboard layout.
+.TP 8
+.B \-I \fIdirectory\fP
+Adds a directory to the list of directories to be used to search for
+specified layout or rules files.
+.TP 8
+.B \-keycodes \fIname\fP
+Specifies the name of the keycodes component used to construct
+a keyboard layout.
+.TP 8
+.B \-keymap \fIname\fP
+Specifies the name of the keymap description used to construct
+a keyboard layout.
+.TP 8
+.B \-layout \fIname\fP
+Specifies the name of the layout used to determine the components which
+make up the keyboard description.  Only one layout may be specified on
+the command line.
+.TP 8
+.B \-model \fIname\fP
+Specifies the name of the keyboard model used to determine the components
+which make up the keyboard description.  Only one model may be specified
+on the command line.
+.TP 8
+.B \-option \fIname\fP
+Specifies the name of an option to determine the components which make up
+the keyboard description;  multiple options may be specified, one per
+\fI-option\fP flag. Note that
+.B setxkbmap
+adds options specified in the command line to the options that were set
+before (as saved in root window properties). If you want to replace all
+previously specified options, use the \fI-option\fP flag with an empty
+argument first.
+.TP 8
+.B \-print
+With this option \fBsetxkbmap\fP just prints component names in a format
+acceptable by \fBxkbcomp\fP (an XKB keymap compiler) and exits. The option
+can be used for tests instead of a verbose option and in cases when one needs
+to run both the \fBsetxkbmap\fP and the \fBxkbcomp\fP in chain (see below).
+.TP 8
+.B \-query
+With this option \fBsetxkbmap\fP just prints the current rules, model,
+layout, variant, and options, then exits.
+.TP 8
+.B \-rules \fIfile\fP
+Specifies the name of the rules file used to resolve the requested layout
+and model to a set of component names.
+.TP 8
+.B \-symbols \fIname\fP
+Specifies the name of the symbols component used to construct
+a keyboard layout.
+.TP 8
+.B \-synch
+Force synchronization for X requests.
+.TP 8
+.B \-types \fIname\fP
+Specifies the name of the types component used to construct
+a keyboard layout.
+.TP 8
+.B \-variant \fIname\fP
+Specifies which variant of the keyboard layout should be used to determine
+the components which make up the keyboard description.  Only one variant
+may be specified on the command line.
+.TP 8
+.B \-verbose|\-v [\fIlevel\fP]
+Specifies level of verbosity in output messages.  Valid levels range from
+0 (least verbose) to 10 (most verbose).  The default verbosity level is 5.
+If no level is specified, each \fI-v\fP or \fI-verbose\fP flag raises the
+level by 1.
+.SH USING WITH xkbcomp
+If you have an Xserver and a client shell running on different computers and
+XKB configuration files on those machines are different you can get
+problems specifying a keyboard map by model, layout, options names.
+This is because \fBsetxkbcomp\fP converts these names to names of XKB
+configuration files according to files that are on the client side computer,
+then it sends the file names to the server where the \fBxkbcomp\fP has to
+compose a complete keyboard map using files which the server has.
+Thus if the sets of files differ significantly the names that the
+\fBsetxkbmap\fP generates can be unacceptable on the server side.  You can
+solve this problem by running the \fBxkbcomp\fP on the client side too.
+With the \fI-print\fP option \fBsetxkbmap\fP just prints the file names
+in an appropriate format to its stdout and this output can be piped
+directly to the \fBxkbcomp\fP input. For example, the command
+
+\fBsetxkbmap us -print | xkbcomp - $DISPLAY\fP
+
+makes both steps run on the same (client) machine and loads a keyboard map into
+the server.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+xkbcomp(__appmansuffix__)
+.SH FILES
+.I __xkbconfigroot__