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NAME

       ckbcomp - compile a XKB keyboard description to a console font.

SYNOPSIS

       ckbcomp [option ...] [layout [variant [option ...]]]

DESCRIPTION

       The  ckbcomp  keymap  compiler  converts a description of an XKB keymap
       into a console keymap that can be read directly by loadkeys.

OPTIONS

       -?, -help
              Print a usage message and exit.

       -charmap  charmap
              The encoding to use.  There should be an  unicode  ACM  map  for
              this encoding in /usr/share/consoletrans.

       -Idir  Search  top-level directory dir for files included by the keymap
              description.  This option may be used multiple times.  After all
              directories   specified   by  -I  options  have  been  searched,
              /etc/console-setup/ckb,  /usr/share/X11/xkb,  /etc/X11/xkb   and
              /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb will be searched too.

       -v level
              Set  level  of  detail for listing.  level is a number from 1 to
              10.

       -compact
              Generate a compact keymap with at most two xkb  groups  and  two
              levels in each or only one xkb-group and up to four levels.

XKB KEYBOARD DESCRIPTION

       The  keyboard  layout,  variant  and  options  components  can  be also
       specified directly on the  command  line.   See  the  synopsis  of  the
       command.

       -symbols name
              Specifies  the  symbols  component  name  of  the  XKB  keyboard
              description.

       -keycodes name
              Specifies the  keycodes  component  name  of  the  XKB  keyboard
              description.

       -rules name
              The name of the rules file to use.

       -model name
              Specifies the keyboard model used to choose the component names.

       -layout name
              Specifies the layout used to choose the component names.

       -variant name
              Specifies the layout variant used to choose the component names.

       -option name
              Adds an option used to choose component names.

SEE ALSO

       xkbcomp(1)

AUTHOR

       Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>, <zinoviev@debian.org>