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The current functions dealing with consumed modifiers use the traditional XKB definition of consumed modifiers (see description in the added documentation). However, for several users of the library (e.g. GTK) this definition is unsuitable or too eager. This is exacerbated by some less-than-ideal xkeyboard-config type definitions (CTRL+ALT seems to cause most grief...). So, because we - want to enable alternative interpretations, but - don't want to expose too much internal details, and - want to keep things simple for all library users, we add a high-level "mode" parameter which selects the desired interpretation. New ones can be added as long as they make some sense. All of the old consumed-modifiers functions keep using the traditional ("XKB") mode. I mark xkb_state_mod_mask_remove_consumed() and as deprecated without adding a *2 variant because I don't it is very useful (or used) in practice. Alternative modes are added in subsequent commits (this commit only adds a mode for the existing behavior). https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues/17 Signed-off-by: Ran Benita <ran234@gmail.com> |
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README.md
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.
Quick Guide
See Quick Guide.
Building
libxkbcommon is built the typical autoconf way:
./autogen.sh
make
To build for use with Wayland, you can disable X11 support while still using the X11 keyboard configuration resource files thusly:
./autogen.sh --disable-x11 \
--with-xkb-config-root=/usr/share/X11/xkb \
--with-x-locale-root=/usr/share/X11/locale
make
API
While libxkbcommon's API is somewhat derived from the classic XKB API as found in X11/extensions/XKB.h and friends, it has been substantially reworked to expose fewer internal details to clients.
See the API Documentation.
Dataset
libxkbcommon does not distribute a keymap 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. More information on xkeyboard-config is available here: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig
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 http://xkbcommon.org
xkbcommon is maintained in git at https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon
Patches are always welcome, and may be sent to either xorg-devel@lists.x.org or wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org or through github.
Bug reports are also welcome, and may be filed either at Bugzilla https://bugs.freedesktop.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=libxkbcommon or Github https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues
The maintainers are
- Daniel Stone daniel@fooishbar.org
- Ran Benita ran234@gmail.com
Credits
Many thanks are due to Dan Nicholson for his heroic work in getting xkbcommon off the ground initially.