<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Ken,</div><div> </div><div>First of all, I must thank you for your courage to answer a question that probably went incomplete and sounds a little weird. The idea is to call X11 server directly (maybe using Display). Parsing disk files (/usr/share/X11/xkb/) could not be good enough, here. The second focus is to limit the data according to the working keyboard geometry. Is there a function to call X11 server for... a) the current/active/detected/in use keyboard geometry name? b) the names and/or ids of all defined keyboard layouts for an specific geometry ? c) the list of keycodes/levels/keysyms for an specific layout (and geometry) ? I'm working in C/C++. Glus</div></div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Missatge de Ken Moffat <<a href="mailto:zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com">zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com</a>> del dia dv., 20 de set. 2019 a les 21:16: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 11:15:41AM +0200, Glus Xof wrote: > Hi guys, > > I need to retrieve all keyboard keycodes, levels, keysyms and keyboard > layout names for all keyboard layouts defined in my X11 system and > according the current keyboard geometry. > > Which would be the suitable library for ? > > Is there any tutorial, piece of code... ? > > Glus Hi Glus, that sounds an uncommon requirement. I have no idea what you want to do with that data, but I'll be very surprised if there are any libraries or tutorials for doing this. OTOH, it would not be the first time I've been surprised :) Anyway, if X is in /usr then xkeyboard-config installs its files in /usr/share/X11/xkb/. For example, on a British keyboard the various options are in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gb with labels like xkb_symbols "dvorak" But these names are only unique within that 'language' file, and they usually include various other items (e.g. "us(dvorak-alt-intl)" for that example. Depending on exactly why you want to do this, and for how wide a range of keyboards, it looks like a job for your favourite scripting language. Similarly, geometry definitions in xkb/geometry and other files in compat/ keycodes/ rules/ and types/. Potentially, your scope is vast (e.g. I could use non-gb non-qwerty layouts on my standard British keyboard, although the only sane reason would be if I knew one of those layouts by heart). In practice, those of us who use X (possibly without gnome or kde) can make our own local changes to get modified mappings for things which are otherwise only in Compose settings. ĸen -- thread 'main' panicked at 'giraffe', /tmp/rustc-1.32.0-src/src/test/run-fail/<a href="http://while-panic.rs" target="_blank">while-panic.rs</a>:17:13 _______________________________________________ <a href="mailto:xorg@lists.x.org" target="_blank">xorg@lists.x.org</a>: X.Org support Archives: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg</a> Info: <a href="https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</a> Your subscription address: %(user_address)s</blockquote></div>