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.\" @(#)loadkeys.1 1.0 93/09/1 RK
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.TH DUMPKEYS 1 "1 Sep 1993"
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dumpkeys \- dump keyboard translation tables
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.B \-\-help \-\-short\-info \-\-long\-info \-\-numeric \-\-full\-table \-\-funcs\-only \-\-keys\-only \-\-compose\-only
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.BI \-\-charset= charset
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.IX "dumpkeys command" "" "\fLdumpkeys\fR command"
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writes, to the standard output, the current contents of the keyboard
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driver's translation tables, in the format specified by
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Using the various options, the format of the output can be controlled
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and also other information from the kernel and the programs
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Prints the program's version number and a short usage message to the
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program's standard error output and exits.
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Prints some characteristics of the kernel's keyboard driver. The items
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Keycode range supported by the kernel
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This tells what values can be used after the
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keyword in keytable files. See
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for more information and the syntax of these files.
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Number of actions bindable to a key
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This tells how many different actions a single key can output using
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various modifier keys. If the value is 16 for example, you can define up
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to 16 different actions to a key combined with modifiers. When the value
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is 16, the kernel probably knows about four modifier keys, which you can
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press in different combinations with the key to access all the bound
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Ranges of action codes supported by the kernel
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This item contains a list of action code ranges in hexadecimal notation.
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These are the values that can be used in the right hand side of a key
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for more information about the format of key definition lines).
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support a symbolic notation, which is preferable to the numeric one, as
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the action codes may vary from kernel to kernel while the symbolic names
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usually remain the same. However, the list of action code ranges can be
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used to determine, if the kernel actually supports all the symbols
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knows, or are there maybe some actions supported by the kernel that
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have no symbolic name in your
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program. To see this, you compare the range list with the action symbol
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Number of function keys supported by kernel
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This tells the number of action codes that can be used to output
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strings of characters. These action codes are traditionally bound to
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the various function and editing keys of the keyboard and are defined
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to send standard escape sequences. However, you can redefine these to
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send common command lines, email addresses or whatever you like.
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Especially if the number of this item is greater than the number of
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function and editing keys in your keyboard, you may have some "spare"
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action codes that you can bind to AltGr-letter combinations, for example,
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to send some useful strings. See
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You can see you current function key definitions with the command
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.B dumpkeys --funcs-only
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This option instructs
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to print a long information listing. The output is the same as with the
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appended with the list of action symbols supported by
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along with the symbols' numeric values.
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to by-pass the conversion of action code values to symbolic notation and
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to print the in hexadecimal format instead.
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.B \-f \-\-full-table
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skip all the short-hand heuristics (see
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and output the key bindings in the canonical form. First a keymaps
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line describing the currently defined modifier combinations
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is printed. Then for each key a row with a column for each
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modifier combination is printed. For
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example, if the current keymap in use uses seven modifiers,
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every row will have seven action code columns. This format
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can be useful for example to programs that post-process the
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When this option is given,
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prints only the function key string definitions. Normally
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prints both the key bindings and the string definitions.
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When this option is given,
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prints only the key bindings. Normally
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prints both the key bindings and the string definitions.
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When this option is given,
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prints only the compose key combinations.
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This option is available only if your kernel has compose key support.
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.BI \-c charset " " " " \-\-charset= charset
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to interpret character code values according to the specified character
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set. This affects only the translation of character code values to
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symbolic names. Valid values for
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Where X is a digit in 1-9. If no
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is used as a default.
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This option produces an output line `charset "iso-8859-X"', telling
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loadkeys how to interpret the keymap. (For example, "division" is
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0xf7 in iso-8859-1 but 0xba in iso-8859-8.)
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.BI @DATADIR@/keymaps
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recommended directory for keytable files
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