NAME¶

gen_keymap — generate a keyboard map decision tree

SYNOPSIS¶

gen_keymap

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DESCRIPTION¶

gen_keymap generates a decision tree from a set of keyboard maps which can be used to help a user decide which keyboard map to use. The program using the decision tree typically asks the user to press some keys; at each step, it examines the returned keycode and uses it to prune the list of possible keyboard maps until there is only one left.

OPTIONS¶

--version

Show program's version number and exit.

-?, --help

Show help text.

-v, --verbose

Be more verbose.

-mMINLEN, --minlen=MINLEN

Too-short keymaps are skipped (default: 30 entries).

-g, --graph

Generate a hopefully-nice-looking .dot file.

--maps

Print the to-be-processed keymaps

-i, --installer

Input files are in d-i map form.

-IDIRS, --inc=DIRS, --include=DIRS

Add a directory to the search path.

-oFILENAME, --output=FILENAME

Set output file (default: stdout).

-fFILTER, --filter=FILTER

Include only the branches leading to these keymaps.

-uUSEONLY, --useonly=USEONLY

Start generating the tree based only on these keymaps. (The difference between --filter and --useonly is that the former generates the whole tree and then prunes it, while the latter only generates a reduced tree to begin with. This may have implications for performance on large trees.)

-sSKIP, --skip=SKIP

Keymaps to skip.

-t, --test

Test the generated maps.

--interactive

Ask user to choose among indistinguishable keymaps.

AUTHORS¶

gen_keymap was written by Matthias Urlichs ⟨smurf@debian.org⟩. This manual page was written by Colin Watson ⟨cjwatson@ubuntu.com⟩.