http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=X_Keymap 2026-08-03T02:26:42Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.19.2 http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=X_Keymap&diff=20196&oldid=prev 2014-12-27T23:35:26Z

<p>Created page with &quot;{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=System files |extensions={{ext|xkm}} }} &#039;&#039;&#039;X Keymap&#039;&#039;&#039; (&#039;&#039;&#039;.xkm&#039;&#039;&#039;) is a binary file format to map keyboard keys to input character...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{FormatInfo<br /> |formattype=electronic<br /> |subcat=System files<br /> |extensions={{ext|xkm}}<br /> }}<br /> '''X Keymap''' ('''.xkm''') is a binary file format to map keyboard keys to input characters and actions used by the [[X Window System]].<br /> <br /> When the X server needs to load a given XKB keyboard layout description, it runs the ''xkbcomp'' command to compile the plain-text description files (usually the ones maintained by the [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig/ xkb-config project]) into the .xkm binary format, which the X server then reads using the API provided by ''libxkbfile''.<br /> <br /> == Specs ==<br /> * [http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxkbfile/tree/include/X11/extensions Specs as .h files]<br /> <br /> == Software ==<br /> * xkbcomp: [http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xkbcomp git repo], [http://www.x.org/releases/individual/app/ tarball releases]<br /> * libxkbfile: [http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxkbfile git repo], [http://www.x.org/releases/individual/lib/ tarball releases]<br /> <br /> == Resources ==<br /> * [http://www.x.org/wiki/XKB/ XKB - X Keyboard Extension]<br /> * [[Wikipedia:X keyboard extension|Wikipedia: X keyboard extension]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:X Window System]]</div>

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