GRUB-KBDCOMP(1)

✨ GRUB-KBDCOMP(1) ✨

ok so bestie, this is a page from the User Commands manual, and it's about grub-kbdcomp 💅 buckle up

---

🌸 NAME 🌸

grub-kbdcomp — bestie, it literally generates a GRUB keyboard layout file 💖

---

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

grub-kbdcomp -o OUTPUT CKBMAP_ARGUMENTS...

that's it. that's the whole vibe. ✨

---

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so here's the tea 🍓 grub-kbdcomp takes an X keyboard layout description — the kind that lives in keymaps(5) format — and processes it into a format that GRUB's keymap command can actually use. it's giving translator energy, no cap.

basically: make GRUB keyboard layout file. 👑

and then there's the flags, bestie, the little menu of options:

• -h, --help — print this message and exit 🫶 (the "hi bestie what do you need" of flags)
• -V, --version — print the version information and exit 🌈 (the "who am i" of flags)
• -o, --output=FILE — save output in FILE [required] 🔥 like, fr fr, you cannot skip this one, it's not optional, it's the whole point

and just so we're clear on the lore: grub-kbdcomp generates a keyboard layout for GRUB using ckbcomp 🧚 that's the magic happening under the hood, iykyk.

---

💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

found a bug? not you being the main character who found it 😭 Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>. 🐛

---

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• grub-mklayout(8) — sibling behavior, go look 💜

the full documentation for grub-kbdcomp is maintained as a Texinfo manual 📖 and if the info and grub-kbdcomp programs are properly installed at your site, this command:

info grub-kbdcomp

should give you access to the complete manual. slay. 🌟

---

that's the page, bestie!! this came to you from the grub-kbdcomp () source, version-dated April 2026, and it lives in the GRUB-KBDCOMP(1) manual — mwah, go build a keymap 💖✨🎀🦋