NAME

       ckbcomp - compile a XKB keyboard description to a keymap suitable for loadkeys

SYNOPSIS

       ckbcomp [option ...] [layout [variant [option ...]]]

DESCRIPTION

       The  ckbcomp keymap compiler converts a description of an XKB keymap into a console keymap
       that can be read directly by loadkeys.

OPTIONS

       -?, -help
              Print a usage message and exit.

       -charmap  charmap
              The encoding to use.  There should be an unicode  ACM  map  for  this  encoding  in
              /usr/share/consoletrans.

       -Idir  Search  top-level directory dir for files included by the keymap description.  This
              option may be used multiple times.  After all directories specified by  -I  options
              have  been  searched,  /etc/console-setup/ckb, /usr/share/X11/xkb, /etc/X11/xkb and
              /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb will be searched too.

       -v level
              Set level of detail for listing.  level is a number from 1 to 10.

       -compact
              Generate a compact keymap with at most two xkb groups and two  levels  in  each  or
              only one xkb-group and up to four levels.

XKB KEYBOARD DESCRIPTION

       The  keyboard layout, variant and options components can be also specified directly on the
       command line.  See the synopsis of the command.

       -symbols name
              Specifies the symbols component name of the XKB keyboard description.

       -keycodes name
              Specifies the keycodes component name of the XKB keyboard description.

       -rules name
              The name of the rules file to use.

       -model name
              Specifies the keyboard model used to choose the component names.

       -layout name
              Specifies the layout used to choose the component names.

       -variant name
              Specifies the layout variant used to choose the component names.

       -option name
              Adds an option used to choose component names.

SEE ALSO

       xkbcomp(1)

AUTHOR

       Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>, <zinoviev@debian.org>