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NAME

       dumpkeys - dump keyboard translation tables

SYNOPSIS

       dumpkeys   [   -hilfn   -ccharset   --help   --short-info   --long-info	--numeric  --full-table  --funcs-only  --keys-only  --compose-only
       --charset=charset ]

DESCRIPTION

       dumpkeys writes, to the standard output, the current contents of the keyboard driver's translation  tables,  in	the  format  specified	by
       keymaps(5).

       Using  the  various  options,  the format of the output can be controlled and also other information from the kernel and the programs dump-
       keys(1) and loadkeys(1) can be obtained.

OPTIONS

       -h --help
	      Prints the program's version number and a short usage message to the program's standard error output and exits.

       -i --short-info
	      Prints some characteristics of the kernel's keyboard driver. The items shown are:

	      Keycode range supported by the kernel

		     This tells what values can be used after the keycode keyword in keytable files. See keymaps(5) for more information  and  the
		     syntax of these files.

	      Number of actions bindable to a key

		     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.

	      Ranges of action codes supported by the kernel

		     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 vv's in a line

			    keycode xx = vv vv vv vv

		     (see keymaps(5) for more information about the format of key definition lines).  dumpkeys(1) and loadkeys(1) support  a  sym-
		     bolic 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  sup-
		     ports  all  the symbols loadkeys(1) knows, or are there maybe some actions supported by the kernel that have no symbolic name
		     in your loadkeys(1) program. To see this, you compare the range list with the action  symbol  list,  see  option  --long-info
		     below.

	      Number of function keys supported by kernel

		     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 loadkeys(1) for more details.

	      Function strings

		     You can see you current function key definitions with the command

			    dumpkeys --funcs-only

       -l --long-info
	      This  option  instructs  dumpkeys to print a long information listing. The output is the same as with the --short-info appended with
	      the list of action symbols supported by loadkeys(1) and dumpkeys(1), along with the symbols' numeric values.

       -n --numeric
	      This option causes dumpkeys to by-pass the conversion of action code values to symbolic notation and to  print  the  in  hexadecimal
	      format instead.

       -f --full-table
	      This  makes  dumpkeys skip all the short-hand heuristics (see 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 modi-
	      fier  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 dumpkeys.

       --funcs-only
	      When this option is given, dumpkeys prints only the function key string definitions. Normally dumpkeys prints both the key  bindings
	      and the string definitions.

       --keys-only
	      When this option is given, dumpkeys prints only the key bindings. Normally dumpkeys prints both the key bindings and the string def-
	      initions.

       --compose-only
	      When this option is given, dumpkeys prints only the compose key combinations.  This option is available only if your kernel has com-
	      pose key support.

       -ccharset  --charset=charset
	      This  instructs dumpkeys to interpret character code values according to the specified character set. This affects only the transla-
	      tion of character code values to symbolic names. Valid values for charset currently are iso-8859-X, Where X is a digit in  1-9.	If
	      no charset is specified, iso-8859-1 is used as a default.  This option produces an output line `charset "iso-8859-X"', telling load-
	      keys how to interpret the keymap. (For example, "division" is 0xf7 in iso-8859-1 but 0xba in iso-8859-8.)

FILES

       /usr/share/keymaps  recommended directory for keytable files

SEE ALSO

       loadkeys(1), keymaps(5)

								    1 Sep 1993							       DUMPKEYS(1)