4:keyboard

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      keyboard - Keyboard input driver
      

Contents 1 SYNOPSIS 2 DESCRIPTION 3 CONFIGURATION DETAILS 4 RELATED 5 CATEGORY

SYNOPSIS

      Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "idevname"
        Driver "keyboard"
        ...
      EndSection

DESCRIPTION

      keyboard is an Xorg input driver for keyboards.  The driver supports the standard OS-provided keyboard interface.
 
      The keyboard driver functions as a keyboard input device, and may be used as the X server's core keyboard.
 
      This driver is built-in to the core X server, and multiple instances are not supported.   A loadable driver, kbd,
      is available, and is planned to replace the keyboard driver in a future release of the Xorg server.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS

      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 "Protocol" "string"
             Specify the keyboard protocol.  Valid protocol types include:
 
                  Standard, Xqueue.
 
             Not all protocols are supported on all platforms.  Default: "Standard".
 
      Option "AutoRepeat" "delay rate"
             sets the auto repeat behaviour for the keyboard.  This is not implemented on all platforms.  delay is  the
             time in milliseconds before a key starts repeating.  rate is the number of times a key repeats per second.
             Default: "500 30".
 
      Option "XLeds" "ledlist"
             makes the keyboard LEDs specified in ledlist available for client use instead of their  traditional  func-
             tion  (Scroll  Lock,  Caps Lock and Num Lock).  The numbers in the list are in the range 1 to 3.  Default:
             empty list.
 
      Option "XkbDisable" "boolean"
             disable/enable the XKEYBOARD extension.  The -kb command line option overrides this  config  file  option.
             Default: XKB is enabled.
 
             NOTE:  This option should be specified in the ServerFlags section rather than here.  It's use here is dep-
             recated.
 
      Option "XkbRules" "rules"
             specifies which XKB rules file to use for interpreting the XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant, and XkbOptions
             settings.  Default: "xorg" for most platforms, but "xfree98" for the Japanese PC-98 platforms.
 
      Option "XkbModel" "modelname"
             specifies  the  XKB keyboard model name.  Default: "pc105" for most platforms, but "pc98" for the Japanese
             PC-98 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, but "nec/jp" for the Japanese PC-98 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.
 
      Some  other  XKB-related  options are available, but they are incompatible with the ones listed above and are not
      recommended, so they are not documented here.

RELATED

      kbd(4), Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), xorgconfig(1), Xserver(1), X(7).

CATEGORY