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int_ua
Asked: 2013-11-21 12:41:20 +0800 CST

How to use xkbprint?

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There are no examples in the manual and every file I've tried needs some geometry.

$ xkbcomp /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ua tmp/ua.xkm

$ xkbprint tmp/ua.xkm
Cannot open "tmp/ua.xkm" to read geometry

$ xkbprint /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ua
Error: Couldn't read geometry from XKM file "/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ua"
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3 Answers

  1. The source can be ... or an X display specification.

    xkbprint :0 -o xkbprint_output.ps

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  2. Best Answer

    To build on gioele's answer, to preview custom keyboard layout, you can also use xkbcomp like this:

    setxkbmap ua -print | xkbcomp - - | xkbprint - - | ps2pdf - > ua.pdf

    ua being the desired keyboard layout.

    Inspect setxkbmap -print — it provides xkbcomp with geometry, symbols, keycodes, ...

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  3. The problem is that your are compiling with xkbcomp a symbol table, not a geometry.

    Try

    $ xkbcomp /usr/share/X11/xkb/geometry/ua - tmp/ua.xkm
$ xkbprint -color tmp/ua.xkm

    or (without temp files and with a PDF output):

    $ xkbcomp /usr/share/X11/xkb/geometry/ua - | xkbprint -color -o - - | ps2pdf - > ua.pdf
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