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X Keyboard Extension
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The X Keyboard Extension essentially replaces the core protocol definition of
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keyboard. The extension makes possible to clearly and explicitly specify most
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aspects of keyboard behaviour on per-key basis and to more closely track the
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logical and physical state of the keyboard. It also includes a number of
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keyboard controls designed to make keyboards more accessible to people with
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physical impairments.
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There are five types of components in the server database corresponing to five
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xkb symbolic names: symbols, geometry, keycodes, compat and types which
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determine the keyboard behaviour. These five components can combined together
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into a resulting keyboard mapping using the 'rules' component.
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The complete specification can be found on
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http://xfree86.org/current/XKBproto.pdf
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For XKB configuration information see 'docs/README.config' file.
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For information how to further enhance XKB configuration see 'docs/README.enhancing'
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file.
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For information how to replace existing XKB configuration database with
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XKeyboardConfig see 'docs/HOWTO.transition' file.
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Contribution guidelines are described at
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http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig/Rules
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