xrdp-genkeymap(8)

✨ xrdp-genkeymap(8) ✨

okay bestie, so this is a section 8 manual page for xrdp-genkeymap — yeah, the number in the parentheses is the manual section, it's giving system-administration-tools energy 💅 — and no, it is not here to make you type your own keymaps by hand. Sit down, hydrate, we're doing keyboards today 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

xrdp-genkeymap — the key map generator for XRDP, periodt. 👑

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🦋 SYNTAX 🦋

xrdp-genkeymap file

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what this little icon actually does: xrdp-genkeymap peeks at the key map your currently running X session is using, and from that it generates a mapping — from Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) key codes over to X keysyms and Unicode code points. literally the whole bridge between "key you pressed on your remote thing" and "thing X understands" 🫶

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• outfile — the key map information gets stored in the file named outfile. that's it, that's the whole option list, we love a one-option era 💅

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/xrdp/km-XXXXXXXX.ini — files containing the keyboard mapping for language XXXXXXXX, which is a 8 digit hexadecimal number identifying the country and language code.
  • 00000405 — cs Czech
  • 00000407 — de German
  • 00000409 — en-us US English
  • 0000040c — fr French
  • 00000410 — it Italian
  • 00000416 — br Portuguese (Brazil)
  • 00000419 — ru Russian
  • 0000041d — se Swedish
  • 00000809 — en-uk UK English

bestie look at the hex codes, they are so specific — every single one of those XXXXXXXX numbers is a country + language code combo and you can't just vibe-guess them 🙈

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

these legends made it happen, show some respect:

• Jay Sorg <jsorg71@users.sourceforge.net>
• Simone Fedele <ilsimo@users.sourceforge.net>

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• xrdp(8)
• setxkbmap(1)
• unicode(7)
• Description of Keyboard Input mapping on the FreeRDP wiki
• For more info on xrdp see http://www.xrdp.org/

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and that's the whole page, bestie — go forth and generate keymaps 🦋✨

this one came from the xrdp team, version 0.10.6.1, and it's filed right here under xrdp-genkeymap(8). take care of her, she's iconic 💖🎀