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author | Diego Nieto Cid <dnietoc@gmail.com> | 2011-03-31 21:11:23 -0300 |
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committer | Diego Nieto Cid <dnietoc@gmail.com> | 2011-04-08 14:36:22 -0300 |
commit | d6f6e1bf7e3eaacb2ce134e40737319e9cf306a8 (patch) | |
tree | d46b402096b05ad42b6542047a604b831272b903 /console-client/xkb/README | |
parent | 06df861f4c9b2bd31af7aaba06977bb67aad6e28 (diff) |
Update xkb/README.
* console-client/xkb/README: Refer to this artifact as "module"
instead of "input driver".
Key repeater is now implemented by pc-kbd.
Update the module's installation and usage procedures.
Diffstat (limited to 'console-client/xkb/README')
-rw-r--r-- | console-client/xkb/README | 39 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/console-client/xkb/README b/console-client/xkb/README index 5270af73..de781143 100644 --- a/console-client/xkb/README +++ b/console-client/xkb/README @@ -1,12 +1,11 @@ --- Some random notes about the XKB input driver. -- +-- Some random notes about the XKB module. -- -This XKB input driver can be compared with the pc_kbd input driver, it -has the same function. But this input driver has many advantages. It -can load XKB configuration files. XKB configuration files, the keymap -files currently used in XFree, are very versatile. +This XKB module used by the pc_kbd input driver can load XKB configuration +files. XKB configuration files, the keymap files currently used in XFree, +are very versatile. One of the biggest advantages of using XKB configurations is that both -the Hurd and XFree work simular. Another advantage is that it has many +the Hurd and XFree work similarly. Another advantage is that it has many features: * Human readable configuration files with mechanisms like include @@ -34,7 +33,6 @@ List of not implemented XKB features: * Error handling; partially done. * Indicators (Keyboard LEDs, etc.) not working, partially implemented. * ISOLock not implemented. -* Key repeater for >> X. * No support for non UTF-8 locales. * No support for rarely used features (Many of they don't even work in X AFAIK). @@ -47,14 +45,12 @@ List of not implemented XKB features: Installation: -You need gcc, binutils and the glibc- and GNUMach headerfiles to -compile this. If you want to generate the scanner and parser yourself -you need bison and flex, but this is not required because I included -the generated files. +This XKB module is an optional feature of pc-kbd input driver. Whether +it is compiled in or not is defined by the precense of XKB_SUPPORT +preprocessor symbol. -Run "make" to compile it. This will result in xkb.so.0.3, the actual -plugin. Copy this file to the console-client driver directory (For the -current Hurd version this is /lib/hurd/console). +In addition to the usual Hurd dependencies, you need yacc and lex +programs to generate the scanner and parser. -- @@ -63,9 +59,8 @@ Using it: To use it you need XKB configuration files. These are included with XFree and will be placed in /share/X11/xkb on most systems. -You can replace "pc_kbd" in your console client startup line with -"xkb" and it will work with the default configuration. If you want a -non-default configuration these options exists: +This module adds the following set of options to pc-kbd for overriding +the default behaviour: --xkbdir : The root directory of the xkb configuration, by default this is /share/X11/xkb. @@ -87,13 +82,13 @@ non-default configuration these options exists: --repeat-interval : The number of jiffies the driver should wait between each repeated key. By default this is 10 jiffies. +I wrote some XKB extensions and configuration files to use these +extensions. You can find these files in the xkb-data directory. -By default console switching, etc. is not possible. I wrote some XKB -extensions and configuration files to use these extensions. You can -find these files in the xkb directory in the tarball. Copy these files -to where your XKB configuration files are (usually /share/X11/xkb). +The build system will copy these files to where your XKB +configuration files are (usually /share/X11/xkb). -for example: xkb/keymap/hurd will be copied to /share/X11/xkb/keymap. +for example: xkb-data/keymap/hurd will be copied to /share/X11/xkb/keymap. To use these extensions you have to use the hurd keymaps file. This holds all keymaps extended with Hurd features. Use "--keymapfile |