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diff --git a/upstream/debian-unstable/man1/dumpkeys.1 b/upstream/debian-unstable/man1/dumpkeys.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fb468191 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/debian-unstable/man1/dumpkeys.1 @@ -0,0 +1,250 @@ +.\" @(#)loadkeys.1 1.0 93/09/1 RK +.TH DUMPKEYS 1 "1 Sep 1993" "kbd" +.SH NAME +dumpkeys \- dump keyboard translation tables +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B dumpkeys +[OPTIONS] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.LP +.B dumpkeys +writes, to the standard output, the current contents of the keyboard +driver's translation tables, in the format specified by +.BR keymaps (5). +.LP +Using the various options, the format of the output can be controlled +and also other information from the kernel and the programs +.BR dumpkeys (1) +and +.BR loadkeys (1) +can be obtained. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.B \-h \-\-help +Prints the program's version number and a short usage message to the +program's standard error output and exits. +.TP +.B \-i \-\-short-info +Prints some characteristics of the kernel's keyboard driver. The items +shown are: +.LP +.RS +Keycode range supported by the kernel +.LP +.RS +This tells what values can be used after the +.B keycode +keyword in keytable files. See +.BR keymaps (5) +for more information and the syntax of these files. +.RE +.LP +Number of actions bindable to a key +.LP +.RS +This tells how many different actions a single key can output using +various modifier keys. If the value is 16 for example, you can define up +to 16 different actions to a key combined with modifiers. When the value +is 16, the kernel probably knows about four modifier keys, which you can +press in different combinations with the key to access all the bound +actions. +.RE +.LP +Ranges of action codes supported by the kernel +.LP +.RS +This item contains a list of action code ranges in hexadecimal notation. +These are the values that can be used in the right hand side of a key +definition, ie. the +.IR vv 's +in a line +.LP +.RS +.B keycode +.I xx += +.I vv vv vv vv +.RE +.LP +(see +.BR keymaps (5) +for more information about the format of key definition lines). +.BR dumpkeys (1) +and +.BR loadkeys (1) +support a symbolic notation, which is preferable to the numeric one, as +the action codes may vary from kernel to kernel while the symbolic names +usually remain the same. However, the list of action code ranges can be +used to determine, if the kernel actually supports all the symbols +.BR loadkeys (1) +knows, or are there maybe some actions supported by the kernel that +have no symbolic name in your +.BR loadkeys (1) +program. To see this, you compare the range list with the action symbol +list, see option +.B --long-info +below. +.RE +.LP +Number of function keys supported by kernel +.LP +.RS +This tells the number of action codes that can be used to output +strings of characters. These action codes are traditionally bound to +the various function and editing keys of the keyboard and are defined +to send standard escape sequences. However, you can redefine these to +send common command lines, email addresses or whatever you like. +Especially if the number of this item is greater than the number of +function and editing keys in your keyboard, you may have some "spare" +action codes that you can bind to AltGr-letter combinations, for example, +to send some useful strings. See +.BR loadkeys (1) +for more details. +.RE +.LP +Function strings +.LP +.RS +You can see you current function key definitions with the command +.LP +.RS +.B dumpkeys --funcs-only +.RE +.LP +.RE +.RE +.LP +.TP +.B \-l \-s \-\-long-info +This option instructs +.B dumpkeys +to print a long information listing. The output is the same as with the +.B --short-info +appended with the list of action symbols supported by +.BR loadkeys (1) +and +.BR dumpkeys (1), +along with the symbols' numeric values. +.LP +.TP +.B \-n \-\-numeric +This option causes +.B dumpkeys +to by-pass the conversion of action code values to symbolic notation and +to print the in hexadecimal format instead. +.LP +.TP +.B \-f \-\-full-table +This makes +.B dumpkeys +skip all the short-hand heuristics (see +.BR keymaps (5)) +and output the key bindings in the canonical form. First a keymaps +line describing the currently defined modifier combinations +is printed. Then for each key a row with a column for each +modifier combination is printed. For +example, if the current keymap in use uses seven modifiers, +every row will have seven action code columns. This format +can be useful for example to programs that post-process the +output of +.BR dumpkeys . +.LP +.TP +.BI \-S shape " " " " \-\-shape= shape +Available shapes: +.LP +.RS +.B 2 +default output. +.RE +.LP +.RS +.B 4 +one line for each keycode. +.RE +.LP +.RS +.B 8 +one line for each (modifier,keycode) pair. +.RE +.LP +.RS +.B 16 +one line for each keycode until 1st hole. +.RE +.LP +.TP +.B \-1 \-\-separate-lines +This forces +.B dumpkeys +to write one line per (modifier,keycode) pair. It prefixes the word +.I plain +for plain keycodes. +.LP +.TP +.B \-t \-\-funcs-only +When this option is given, +.B dumpkeys +prints only the function key string definitions. Normally +.B dumpkeys +prints both the key bindings and the string definitions. +.LP +.TP +.B \-k \-\-keys-only +When this option is given, +.B dumpkeys +prints only the key bindings. Normally +.B dumpkeys +prints both the key bindings and the string definitions. +.LP +.TP +.B \-d \-\-compose-only +When this option is given, +.B dumpkeys +prints only the compose key combinations. +This option is available only if your kernel has compose key support. +.LP +.TP +.BI \-c charset " " " " \-\-charset= charset +This instructs +.B dumpkeys +to interpret character code values according to the specified character +set. This affects only the translation of character code values to +symbolic names. Valid values for +.I charset +currently are +.BR iso-8859-X , +Where X is a digit in 1-9. If no +.I charset +is specified, +.B iso-8859-1 +is used as a default. +This option produces an output line `charset "iso-8859-X"', telling +loadkeys how to interpret the keymap. (For example, "division" is +0xf7 in iso-8859-1 but 0xba in iso-8859-8.) +.LP +.TP +.BI \-C dev " " " " \-\-console= dev +The affected console device can be specified using the +.I -C +(or +.I --console +) option. This option supports exactly one device name. +.LP +.TP +.B \-v \-\-verbose +Turn on verbose output. +.LP +.TP +.B \-V \-\-version +Prints version number and exits. +.LP +.SH FILES +.TP +.I /usr/share/keymaps +The recommended directory for keytable files. +.LP +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR loadkeys (1), +.BR keymaps (5) + |