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KBD_MODE(1) General Commands Manual KBD_MODE(1)
kbd_mode - report or set the keyboard mode
kbd_mode [ -a | -u | -k | -s ] [ -f ] [ -C CONSOLE ]
Without argument, kbd_mode prints the current keyboard mode (RAW,
MEDIUMRAW or XLATE). With argument, it sets the keyboard mode as
indicated:
-s: scancode mode (RAW),
-k: keycode mode (MEDIUMRAW),
-a: ASCII mode (XLATE),
-u: UTF-8 mode (UNICODE).
Of course the "-a" is only traditional, and the code used can be
any 8-bit character set. With "-u" a 16-bit character set is
expected, and these chars are transmitted to the kernel as 1, 2,
or 3 bytes (following the UTF-8 coding). In these latter two
modes the key mapping defined by loadkeys(1) is used.
kbd_mode operates on the console specified by the "-C" option; if
there is none, the console associated with stdin is used.
Warning: changing the keyboard mode, other than between ASCII and
Unicode, will probably make your keyboard unusable. Set the "-f"
option to force such changes. This command is only meant for use
(say via remote login) when some program left your keyboard in
the wrong state. Note that in some obsolete versions of this
program the "-u" option was a synonym for "-s" and older versions
of this program may not recognize the "-f" option.
loadkeys(1)
This page is part of the kbd (Linux keyboard tools) project.
Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://www.kbd-project.org/⟩. If you have a bug report for this
manual page, send it to [email protected]. This page was
obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/legionus/kbd.git⟩ on 2024-06-14. (At that
time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
repository was 2024-05-20.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there
is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
[email protected]
kbd 6 Apr 1994 KBD_MODE(1)
Pages that refer to this page: kbdinfo(1), loadkeys(1), unicode_start(1), unicode_stop(1), ioctl_console(2)
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