XKBCLI-INTERACTIVE-EVDEV(1) General Commands Manual XKBCLI-INTERACTIVE-EVDEV(1)

xkbcli interactive-evdevinteractive debugger for XKB keymaps

xkbcli interactive-evdev [options]

xkbcli interactive-evdev is a commandline tool to interactively debug XKB keymaps by listening to /dev/input/eventX evdev devices.

xkbcli interactive-evdev requires permission to open the evdev device nodes. This usually requires being the “root” user or belonging to the “input” group.

Press the ⟨Escape⟩ key to exit.

This is a debugging tool, its behavior or output is not guaranteed to be stable.

Print help and exit
PATH
Add the given path to the include path list. This option is order-dependent, include paths given first are searched first. If an include path is given, the default include path list is not used. Use ---include-defaults to add the default include paths.
--include-defaults
Add the default set of include directories. This option is order-dependent, include paths given first are searched first.
rules
The XKB ruleset
model
The XKB model
layout
The XKB layout
variant
The XKB layout variant
options
The XKB options
file
Specify a keymap path. This option is mutually exclusive with the RMLVO options.
Do not print layout nor Unicode keysym translation.
Report changes to the keyboard state
Enable Compose functionality
{xkb|gtk}
Set the consumed modifiers mode (default: xkb)
Don't add an offset of 8 when converting an evdev keycode to an XKB keycode. You probably don't want this option.

xkbcli(1), xkbcli-interactive-wayland(1), xkbcli-interactive-x11(1), The libxkbcommon online documentation

July 27, 2020 Linux 6.8.2-arch2-1