debian man page for kbdinfo

KBDINFO(1)						      General Commands Manual							KBDINFO(1)

NAME
       kbdinfo - obtain information about the status of a console

SYNOPSIS
       kbdinfo [-C DEVICE] getmode [text|graphics]

       kbdinfo [-C DEVICE] gkbmode [raw|xlate|mediumraw|unicode]

       kbdinfo [-C DEVICE] gkbmeta [metabit|escprefix]

       kbdinfo [-C DEVICE] gkbled [scrolllock|numlock|capslock]

DESCRIPTION
       kbdinfo is an interface to KDGETMODE, GKBMODE, GKBMETA and GKBLED ioctls.  Its primary use case is to query the status of the given CONSOLE
       (or the currently active one, if no -C option is present) from a shell script.

       If the final value argument is not specified, kbdinfo will print the result of the desired ioctl to the standard  output.   Otherwise,  the
       given  value  is  compared  to  the  actual result, and the utility will exit with a status code of 0 for a match, 1 otherwise.	No text is
       printed for this style of invocation.

SEE ALSO
       kbd_mode(1)

AUTHOR
       kbdinfo is Copyright (C) 2011 Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Michael Schutte <michi@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

								     June 2011								KBDINFO(1)