install-keymap(8) [debian man page]

INSTALL-KEYMAP(8)					      System Manager's Manual						 INSTALL-KEYMAP(8)

NAME

       install-keymap -- expand a given keymap and install it as boot-time keymap

SYNOPSIS

       install-keymap [keymap-name | NONE | KERNEL]

DESCRIPTION

       install-keymap usually takes a keymap-name as argument.	The file is passed to loadkeys for loading, so that valid values for this argument
       are the same than that of arguments to loadkeys.  install-keymap expands include-like statements in that  file,	and  puts  the	result	in
       /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz, which will be loaded into the kernel at boot-time.

       One  may  also specify KERNEL instead of a keymap name, causing /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz	 to be removed, making sure that no custom
       keymap will replace the kernel's builtin keymap at next reboot.

       An argument of NONE tells the command to do nothing.  It can be used by caller scripts to avoid handling this special case  and	needlessly
       duplicate code.

       The  purpose of this processing is to solve an annoying problem, of 2 apparently conflicting issues.  The first one is an important goal of
       keymap management in Debian, namely ensuring that whenever the user or admin is expected to use the keyboard, the keymap selected as  boot-
       time  keymap  is  in  use;  this  means	the keymap has to be loaded before a shell is ever proposed, which means very early in the booting
       process, and especially before all local filesystems are mounted (/etc/rcS.d/S10checkroot.sh can spawn sulogin).

       The second issue is that for flexibility we allow that /usr or /usr/share may live on their own partition(s), and thus  /usr/share/keymaps,
       where  keymap  files  live, may not be available for reading at the time we need a keymap file.	And no, we won't put 1Mb of keymaps in the
       root partition just for this.

       And the problem is, most keymap files are not self-contained, so it does not help to just copy the selected file into the  root	partition.
       The  best  known  solution so far is to expand the keymap file so that it becomes self-contained, and put it in the root partition.  That's
       what this tool does.

FILES

       /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz

       Where the boot-time keymap is stored

SEE ALSO

       loadkeys (8).

AUTHOR

       This program and manual page were written by Yann Dirson dirson@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system, but as it  should  not  include
       any Debian-specific code, it may be used by others.

																 INSTALL-KEYMAP(8)

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ckbcomp(1)							   User Manuals 							ckbcomp(1)

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>

console-setup							     MAY 2007								ckbcomp(1)

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