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Chapter 23. X Window System Environment

XKeyboardConfig-1.2

Introduction to XKeyboardConfig

The XKeyboardConfig package contains the keyboard configuration database for the X Window System.

Package Information

XKeyboardConfig Dependencies

Required

Xorg Applications and XML::Parser-2.34

Optional

intltool-0.35.5

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xkeyboard-config

Installation of XKeyboardConfig

Install XKeyboardConfig by running the following commands: 

./configure $XORG_CONFIG --with-xkb-rules-symlink=xorg &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&
install -dv -m755 $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/xkeyboard-config-1.2 &&
install -v -m644 docs/{README,HOWTO}* \
    $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/xkeyboard-config-1.2

Command Explanations

--with-xkb-rules-symlink=xorg: By default, the XKB rules installed are named "base". This creates symlinks named "xorg" to those rules, which is the default name used by Xorg.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directory: $XORG_PREFIX/share/X11/xkb, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/xkeyboard-config-1.2

Last updated on 2008-04-25 01:13:38 -0500