3 libxkbcommon is a keyboard keymap compiler and support library which
4 processes a reduced subset of keymaps as defined by the XKB (X Keyboard
5 Extension) specification. It also contains a module for handling Compose
6 and dead keys and a separate library for listing available keyboard layouts.
10 See [Quick Guide](doc/quick-guide.md).
14 libxkbcommon is built with [Meson](http://mesonbuild.com/):
18 ninja -C build -t targets
21 To build for use with Wayland, you can disable X11 support while still
22 using the X11 keyboard configuration resource files thusly:
26 -Dxkb-config-root=/usr/share/X11/xkb \
27 -Dx-locale-root=/usr/share/X11/locale
32 While libxkbcommon's API is somewhat derived from the classic XKB API as found
33 in X11/extensions/XKB.h and friends, it has been substantially reworked to
34 expose fewer internal details to clients.
36 See the [API Documentation](https://xkbcommon.org/doc/current/modules.html).
40 libxkbcommon does not distribute a keymap dataset itself, other than for
41 testing purposes. The most common dataset is xkeyboard-config, which is used
42 by all current distributions for their X11 XKB data. More information on
43 xkeyboard-config is available here:
44 https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig
46 The dataset for Compose is distributed in libX11, as part of the X locale
51 See [Compatibility](doc/compat.md) notes.
55 An extremely rudimentary homepage can be found at
58 xkbcommon is maintained in git at
59 https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon
61 Patches are always welcome, and may be sent to either
62 <xorg-devel@lists.x.org> or <wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
63 or in a [GitHub](https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon) pull request.
65 Bug reports (and usage questions) are also welcome, and may be filed at
66 [GitHub](https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues).
69 - Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
70 - Ran Benita <ran@unusedvar.com>
74 Many thanks are due to Dan Nicholson for his heroic work in getting xkbcommon
75 off the ground initially.