MK_MODMAP(8)

🎀 MK_MODMAP(8) 🎀

System Manager's Manual, because it's giving old-school 💜

✨ NAME ✨

mk_modmap — okay so this one turns a Linux keytable file into an xmodmap file 🗝️

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

mk_modmap [ -v ] keymap_file

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Bestie, the mk_modmap command is literally a translator. It takes a Linux console keytable file and turns it into something xmodmap can read, so you can use it inside X ✨ It prints everything to standard out, so you'll want to redirect it wherever you need it to go.

If you add the -v flag, you get verbose output. Main character energy for debugging 🔍

Heads up 🫶 you need the X header files installed to use it. On Debian those live in the "xlibs-dev" package, so go grab that first or it won't work 😭

🌸 NOTES 🌸

Since XFree version 2.1, X sets up its keymap using the Linux keymap, so honestly? xmodmap will often be superfluous 💀 It's giving "you did all that for nothing," but iykyk 🙈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Kjetil T. Homme <kjetilho@ifi.uio.no> 💖 Pablo Saratxaga <pablo@mandrakesoft.com> 🧚 Manpage by Alastair McKinstry, <mckinstry@computer.org> 🍓

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

dumpkeys(1), keymaps(5), xmodmap(1) — go read these, they're iconic too 🔥

Bye bestie! This page came from the kbd package, dated 2002-02-22, and it's still slaying 💅✨