[xkb] Documentation

[Georg Grabler]

Hi Lists, hi Guiseppe,

Not really a documentation, but I got pointed to fcitx on the chakra
mailing lists today, which has a xlib/xkb reference implementation for
reading and setting the required keyboard configuration without
external commands (though, still parsing evdev.xml/evdev.extras.xml).
With a bit of effort it can be either turned in a library or just
transformed to fit your needs.

https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx/blob/master/src/module/xkb/xkb.c

Kind regards,
Georg

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Giuseppe Penone <giuspen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Georg,
> I've been also searching same as you since I wrote a simple applet for the
> lxde panel
> to handle keyboard layouts (www.giuspen.com/customs).
> In the end I generated my own glib key-value files for layouts and variants,
> models and toggle options
> using python scripts taking information from the command "man -P cat
> xkeyboard-config".
> And I ended up using system calls to setxkbmap.
> I also would be interested in direct calls to xkb lib but didn't find.
> Cheers,
> Giuseppe.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 4:52 AM, Georg Grabler <ggrabler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello List :).
>>
>> I've been trying and trying again in the xkb direction to implement
>> anything proper. I always ended up parsing the XML files myself,
>> setting layouts by external console commands since xkb seems not to
>> provide any .. at least working dbus interface without external tools
>> (and i know your stance about that part - I'm fine with that).
>>
>> I tried to find a documentation (something like doxygen) for xkb
>> public interfaces. I had no luck, there was something like libxkbui,
>> but the documentation link does not work on freedesktop. Looking
>> closer, I think it wouldn't match my needs to read and set all
>> available keyboard layout and model anyway, but still.
>>
>> Is there any public interface and documentation about it? Maybe I'm just
>> blind.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Georg
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