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xkbcli-interactive-wayland - interactive debugger for Wayland keyboard keymaps


XKBCLI−INTERACTIVE−WAYLA(1) General Commands ManualXKBCLI−INTERACTIVE−WAYLA(1)

NAME

xkbcli−interactive−wayland — interactive debugger for Wayland keyboard keymaps

SYNOPSIS

xkbcli−interactive−wayland [options]

DESCRIPTION

xkbcli−interactive−wayland is a commandline tool to interactively debug XKB keymaps by listening to Wayland events.

This requires a Wayland compositor to be running.

Press the ⟨Escape⟩ key to exit.

This is a debugging tool, its behavior or output is not guaranteed to be stable.

−−help

Print help and exit

−−format keymap_format

Specify the keymap format (numeric or label, e.g. “v1”)

−−local−state

Enable local state handling and ignore modifiers/layouts state updates from the compositor

−−keymap [
PATH
]

Load the XKB keymap from a file instead of the keymap from the compositor. It implies −−local−state . If PATH is empty or “−”, read the stdin.

−−enable−compose

Enable Compose functionality

−−verbose

Enable verbose debugging output

−1, −−uniline

Enable uniline event output

−−multiline

Enable multiline event output

SEE ALSO

xkbcli(1), xkbcli−interactive−evdev(1), xkbcli−interactive−x11(1), The libxkbcommon online documentation: https://xkbcommon.org GNU June 4, 2024 XKBCLI−INTERACTIVE−WAYLAND(1)


Updated 2026-06-01 - jenkler.se | uex.se