ckbcomp

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

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

-?, -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.

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.

xkbcomp(1)

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