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This library is the replacement for clients parsing evdev.xml directly. Instead, they should use the API here so that in the future we may even be able to swap evdev.xml for a more suitable data format. The library parses through evdev.xml (using libxml2) and - if requested - through evdev.extras.xml as well. The merge approach is optimised for the default case where we have a system-installed rules XML and another file in $XDG_CONFIG_DIR that adds a few entries. We load the system file first, then append any custom ones to that. It's not possible to overwrite the MLVO list provided by the system files - if you want to do that, get the change upstream. XML validation is handled through the DTD itself which means we only need to check for a nonempty name, everything else the DTD validation should complain about. The logging system is effectively identical to xkbcommon. Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> |
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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 and a separate library for listing available keyboard layouts.
Quick Guide
See Quick Guide.
Building
libxkbcommon is built with Meson:
meson setup build
ninja -C build
To build for use with Wayland, you can disable X11 support while still using the X11 keyboard configuration resource files thusly:
meson setup build \
-Denable-x11=false \
-Dxkb-config-root=/usr/share/X11/xkb \
-Dx-locale-root=/usr/share/X11/locale
ninja -C build
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: https://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 https://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 in a GitHub pull request.
Bug reports (and usage questions) are also welcome, and may be filed at GitHub.
The maintainers are
- Daniel Stone daniel@fooishbar.org
- Ran Benita ran@unusedvar.com
Credits
Many thanks are due to Dan Nicholson for his heroic work in getting xkbcommon off the ground initially.