kbd - Keyboard input driver
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "idevname"
Driver "kbd"
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EndSection
kbd is an Xorg input driver for keyboards. The driver supports the
standard OS-provided keyboard interface, but these are currently only
available to this driver module for Linux, BSD, and Solaris. This driver is
the replacement for the built-in keyboard driver formerly included in
Xorg.
The kbd driver functions as a keyboard input device.
Depending on the X server version in use, input device options may be set in
either a xorg.conf file, an xorg.conf.d snippet, or in the configuration files
read by the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) daemon, hald(1).
Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details and
for options that can be used with all input drivers. This section only
covers configuration details specific to this driver.
The following driver Options are supported:
- Option "Device" "string"
- Specify the keyboard device. Default: the OS's default console keyboard
input source. Property: "Device Node" (read-only).
- Option "Protocol" "string"
- Specify the keyboard protocol. Valid protocol types include:
Standard, Xqueue.
Not all protocols are supported on all platforms.
Default: "Standard".
- Option "XLeds" "ledlist"
- makes the keyboard LEDs specified in ledlist available for client
use instead of their traditional function (Scroll Lock, Caps Lock and Num
Lock). The numbers in the list are in the range 1 to 3. Default: empty
list.
- Option "XkbRules" "rules"
- specifies which XKB rules file to use for interpreting the
XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant, and
XkbOptions settings. Default: "base" for most platforms.
If you use the "base" value then you can find listing of all
valid values for these four options in the
/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst file.
- Option "XkbModel"
"modelname"
- specifies the XKB keyboard model name. Default: "pc105" for most
platforms.
- Option "XkbLayout"
"layoutname"
- specifies the XKB keyboard layout name. This is usually the country or
language type of the keyboard. Default: "us" for most
platforms.
- Option "XkbVariant"
"variants"
- specifies the XKB keyboard variant components. These can be used to
enhance the keyboard layout details. Default: not set.
- Option "XkbOptions"
"options"
- specifies the XKB keyboard option components. These can be used to enhance
the keyboard behaviour. Default: not set.
For a list of available XKB options, see
xkeyboard-config(7).
The following xorg.conf fragment ensures that user will be able to switch
between us and sk layouts by pressing the "menu" key.
The scroll lock LED shows which layout is currently active.
The XkbVariant option defines which variants of the two
layouts should be used. In case of the us layout its default variant
is used. In case of the sk layout its qwerty variant is
used.
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "base"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us,sk"
Option "XkbVariant" ",qwerty"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:menu_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
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Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7).
hal(7), hald(8), fdi(5).
xkeyboard-config(7).