Hi Ken, First of all, I must thank you for your courage to answer a question that probably went incomplete and sounds a little weird.
The idea is to call X11 server directly (maybe using Display). Parsing disk files (/usr/share/X11/xkb/) could not be good enough, here. The second focus is to limit the data according to the working keyboard geometry. Is there a function to call X11 server for... a) the current/active/detected/in use keyboard geometry name? b) the names and/or ids of all defined keyboard layouts for an specific geometry ? c) the list of keycodes/levels/keysyms for an specific layout (and geometry) ? I'm working in C/C++. Glus Missatge de Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> del dia dv., 20 de set. 2019 a les 21:16: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 11:15:41AM +0200, Glus Xof wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I need to retrieve all keyboard keycodes, levels, keysyms and keyboard > > layout names for all keyboard layouts defined in my X11 system and > > according the current keyboard geometry. > > > > Which would be the suitable library for ? > > > > Is there any tutorial, piece of code... ? > > > > Glus > > Hi Glus, > > that sounds an uncommon requirement. I have no idea what you want > to do with that data, but I'll be very surprised if there are any > libraries or tutorials for doing this. OTOH, it would not be the > first time I've been surprised :) > > Anyway, if X is in /usr then xkeyboard-config installs its files in > /usr/share/X11/xkb/. For example, on a British keyboard the various > options are in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gb with labels like > xkb_symbols "dvorak" > > But these names are only unique within that 'language' file, and > they usually include various other items (e.g. "us(dvorak-alt-intl)" > for that example. > > Depending on exactly why you want to do this, and for how wide a > range of keyboards, it looks like a job for your favourite scripting > language. > > Similarly, geometry definitions in xkb/geometry and other files in > compat/ keycodes/ rules/ and types/. > > Potentially, your scope is vast (e.g. I could use non-gb non-qwerty > layouts on my standard British keyboard, although the only sane > reason would be if I knew one of those layouts by heart). In > practice, those of us who use X (possibly without gnome or kde) can > make our own local changes to get modified mappings for things which > are otherwise only in Compose settings. > > ĸen > -- > thread 'main' panicked at 'giraffe', > /tmp/rustc-1.32.0-src/src/test/run-fail/while-panic.rs:17:13 > _______________________________________________ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
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