NAME¶

xkbcli-interactive-evdev — interactive debugger for X Keyboard keymaps

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

xkbcli-interactive-evdev is a commandline tool to interactively debug XKB keymaps by listening to /dev/input/eventX evdev devices.

xkbcli-interactive-evdev requires permission to open the evdev device nodes. This usually requires being the “root” user or belonging to the “input” group.

Press the ⟨Escape⟩ key to exit.

This is a debugging tool, its behavior or output is not guaranteed to be stable.

KEYMAP_PATH

Path to a keymap file, or “-” to read the standard input

--help

Print help and exit

--verbose

Enable verbose debugging output

--include PATH

Add the given path to the include path list. This option is order-dependent, include paths given first are searched first. If an include path is given, the default include path list is not used. Use --include-defaults to add the default include paths.

--include-defaults

Add the default set of include directories. This option is order-dependent, include paths given first are searched first.

--format keymap_format

Specify the keymap format (numeric or label, e.g. “v1”)

--rules rules

The XKB ruleset

--model model

The XKB model

--layout layout

The XKB layout

--variant variant

The XKB layout variant

--option options

The XKB options

--enable-environment-names

Allow to set the default RMLVO values via the following environment variables:

• XKB_DEFAULT_RULES
• XKB_DEFAULT_MODEL
• XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT
• XKB_DEFAULT_VARIANT
• XKB_DEFAULT_OPTIONS

Note that this option may affect the default values of the previous options.

--keymap file

Specify a keymap path. This option is mutually exclusive with the RMLVO options.

--enable-compose

Enable Compose functionality

--consumed-mode {xkb|gtk}

Set the consumed modifiers mode (default: xkb)

--without-x11-offset

Don't add an offset of 8 when converting an evdev keycode to an XKB keycode. You probably don't want this option.

--report-state-changes

Report changes to the keyboard state

-1, --uniline

Enable uniline event output.

--multiline

Enable multiline event output.

--short

Print shorter event output.

SEE ALSO¶

xkbcli(1), xkbcli-interactive-wayland(1), xkbcli-interactive-x11(1), The libxkbcommon online documentation