4 The X Keyboard Extension essentially replaces the core protocol definition of
5 keyboard. The extension makes possible to clearly and explicitly specify most
6 aspects of keyboard behaviour on per-key basis and to more closely track the
7 logical and physical state of the keyboard. It also includes a number of
8 keyboard controls designed to make keyboards more accessible to people with
11 There are five types of components in the server database corresponing to five
12 xkb symbolic names: symbols, geometry, keycodes, compat and types which
13 determine the keyboard behaviour. These five components can combined together
14 into a resulting keyboard mapping using the 'rules' component.
16 The complete specification can be found on
17 http://www.x-docs.org/XKB/XKBproto.pdf
19 For XKB configuration information see 'docs/README.config' file.
21 For information how to further enhance XKB configuration see 'docs/README.enhancing'
24 For information how to replace existing XKB configuration database with
25 XKeyboardConfig see 'docs/HOWTO.transition' file.