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diff --git a/man/Makefile.am b/man/Makefile.am new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2d33de6 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/Makefile.am @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ + +appmandir = $(APP_MAN_DIR) +appman_PRE = setxkbmap.man +appman_DATA = $(appman_PRE:man=$(APP_MAN_SUFFIX)) + +EXTRA_DIST = $(appman_PRE) +CLEANFILES = $(appman_DATA) +SUFFIXES = .$(APP_MAN_SUFFIX) .man + +# String replacements in MAN_SUBSTS now come from xorg-macros.m4 via configure +MAN_SUBSTS += -e 's|__xkbconfigroot__|"$(XKBCONFIGROOT)"|' + +.man.$(APP_MAN_SUFFIX): + $(AM_V_GEN)$(SED) $(MAN_SUBSTS) < $< > $@ diff --git a/man/setxkbmap.man b/man/setxkbmap.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c0b87a --- /dev/null +++ b/man/setxkbmap.man @@ -0,0 +1,139 @@ +.\" +.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__ |