Querying xkb for the keyboard model

Sergey Udaltsov sergey.udaltsov at gmail.com
Tue Jun 3 12:11:04 PDT 2008


>> The _XKB_RULES_NAMES property on the root window contains the XKB model
>> name, among other things.
>>
>
> Thanks for the reply. This is exactly what I wanted.


Be careful though. This is nonstandard - I mean it is xfree/xorg way
of doing it. This property is not specified in XKB documentation!

Sergey



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