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NAME
       dumpkeys - dump keyboard translation tables

SYNOPSIS
       dumpkeys [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION
       dumpkeys writes, to the standard output, the current contents of the
       keyboard driver's translation tables, in the format specified by
       keymaps(5).

       Using the various options, the format of the output can be controlled
       and also other information from the kernel and the programs dumpkeys(1)
       and loadkeys(1) can be obtained.

OPTIONS
       -h --help
	      Prints the program's version number and a short usage message to
	      the program's standard error output and exits.

       -i --short-info
	      Prints some characteristics of the kernel's keyboard driver. The
	      items shown are:

	      Keycode range supported by the kernel

		     This tells what values can be used after the keycode
		     keyword in keytable files. See keymaps(5) for more
		     information and the syntax of these files.

	      Number of actions bindable to a key

		     This tells how many different actions a single key can
		     output using various modifier keys. If the value is 16
		     for example, you can define up to 16 different actions to
		     a key combined with modifiers. When the value is 16, the
		     kernel probably knows about four modifier keys, which you
		     can press in different combinations with the key to
		     access all the bound actions.

	      Ranges of action codes supported by the kernel

		     This item contains a list of action code ranges in
		     hexadecimal notation.  These are the values that can be
		     used in the right hand side of a key definition, ie. the
		     vv's in a line

			    keycode xx = vv vv vv vv

		     (see keymaps(5) for more information about the format of
		     key definition lines).  dumpkeys(1) and loadkeys(1)
		     support a symbolic notation, which is preferable to the
		     numeric one, as the action codes may vary from kernel to
		     kernel while the symbolic names usually remain the same.
		     However, the list of action code ranges can be used to
		     determine, if the kernel actually supports all the
		     symbols loadkeys(1) knows, or are there maybe some
		     actions supported by the kernel that have no symbolic
		     name in your loadkeys(1) program. To see this, you
		     compare the range list with the action symbol list, see
		     option --long-info below.

	      Number of function keys supported by kernel

		     This tells the number of action codes that can be used to
		     output strings of characters. These action codes are
		     traditionally bound to the various function and editing
		     keys of the keyboard and are defined to send standard
		     escape sequences. However, you can redefine these to send
		     common command lines, email addresses or whatever you
		     like.  Especially if the number of this item is greater
		     than the number of function and editing keys in your
		     keyboard, you may have some "spare" action codes that you
		     can bind to AltGr-letter combinations, for example, to
		     send some useful strings. See loadkeys(1) for more
		     details.

	      Function strings

		     You can see you current function key definitions with the
		     command

			    dumpkeys --funcs-only

       -l -s --long-info
	      This option instructs dumpkeys to print a long information
	      listing. The output is the same as with the --short-info
	      appended with the list of action symbols supported by
	      loadkeys(1) and dumpkeys(1), along with the symbols' numeric
	      values.

       -n --numeric
	      This option causes dumpkeys to by-pass the conversion of action
	      code values to symbolic notation and to print the in hexadecimal
	      format instead.

       -f --full-table
	      This makes dumpkeys skip all the short-hand heuristics (see
	      keymaps(5)) and output the key bindings in the canonical form.
	      First a keymaps line describing the currently defined modifier
	      combinations is printed. Then for each key a row with a column
	      for each modifier combination is printed. For example, if the
	      current keymap in use uses seven modifiers, every row will have
	      seven action code columns. This format can be useful for example
	      to programs that post-process the output of dumpkeys.

       -Sshape	--shape=shape
	      Available shapes:

	      2 default output.

	      4 one line for each keycode.

	      8 one line for each (modifier,keycode) pair.

	      16 one line for each keycode until 1st hole.

       -1 --separate-lines
	      This forces dumpkeys to write one line per (modifier,keycode)
	      pair. It prefixes the word plain for plain keycodes.

       -t --funcs-only
	      When this option is given, dumpkeys prints only the function key
	      string definitions. Normally dumpkeys prints both the key
	      bindings and the string definitions.

       -k --keys-only
	      When this option is given, dumpkeys prints only the key
	      bindings. Normally dumpkeys prints both the key bindings and the
	      string definitions.

       -d --compose-only
	      When this option is given, dumpkeys prints only the compose key
	      combinations.  This option is available only if your kernel has
	      compose key support.

       -ccharset  --charset=charset
	      This instructs dumpkeys to interpret character code values
	      according to the specified character set. This affects only the
	      translation of character code values to symbolic names. Valid
	      values for charset currently are iso-8859-X, Where X is a digit
	      in 1-9.  If no charset is specified, iso-8859-1 is used as a
	      default.	This option produces an output line `charset
	      "iso-8859-X"', telling loadkeys how to interpret the keymap.
	      (For example, "division" is 0xf7 in iso-8859-1 but 0xba in
	      iso-8859-8.)

       -Cdev  --console=dev
	      The affected console device can be specified using the -C (or
	      --console ) option. This option supports exactly one device
	      name.

       -v --verbose
	      Turn on verbose output.

       -V --version
	      Prints version number and exits.

FILES
       /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
	      The recommended directory for keytable files.

SEE ALSO
       loadkeys(1), keymaps(5)


kbd				  1 Sep 1993			   DUMPKEYS(1)