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NAME
       setxkbmap - set the keyboard using the X Keyboard Extension

SYNOPSIS
       setxkbmap [ args ] [ layout [ variant [ option ...  ] ] ]

DESCRIPTION
       The setxkbmap command maps the keyboard to use the layout determined by
       the options specified on the command line.

       An XKB keymap is constructed from a number of components which are
       compiled only as needed.  The source for all of the components can be
       found in /usr/local/share/X11/xkb.

OPTIONS
       -compat name
               Specifies the name of the compatibility map component used to
               construct a keyboard layout.

       -config file
               Specifies the name of an XKB configuration file which describes
               the keyboard to be used.

       -device device
               Specifies the numeric device id of the input device to be
               updated with the new keyboard layout. If not specified, the
               core keyboard device of the X server is updated.

       -display display
               Specifies the display to be updated with the new keyboard
               layout.

       -geometry name
               Specifies the name of the geometry component used to construct
               a keyboard layout.

       -help   Prints a message describing the valid input to setxkbmap.

       -I directory
               Adds a directory to the list of directories to be used to
               search for specified layout or rules files.

       -keycodes name
               Specifies the name of the keycodes component used to construct
               a keyboard layout.

       -keymap name
               Specifies the name of the keymap description used to construct
               a keyboard layout.

       -layout name
               Specifies the name of the layout used to determine the
               components which make up the keyboard description. The -layout
               option may only be used once. Multiple layouts can be specified
               as a comma-separated list.

       -model name
               Specifies the name of the keyboard model used to determine the
               components which make up the keyboard description.  Only one
               model may be specified on the command line.

       -option name
               Specifies the name of an option to determine the components
               which make up the keyboard description;  multiple options may
               be specified, one per -option flag. Note that setxkbmap adds
               options specified in the command line to the options that were
               set before (as saved in root window properties). If you want to
               replace all previously specified options, use the -option flag
               with an empty argument first.

       -print  With this option setxkbmap just prints component names in a
               format acceptable by xkbcomp (an XKB keymap compiler) and
               exits. The option can be used for tests instead of a verbose
               option and in cases when one needs to run both the setxkbmap
               and the xkbcomp in chain (see below).

       -query  With this option setxkbmap just prints the current rules,
               model, layout, variant, and options, then exits.

       -rules file
               Specifies the name of the rules file used to resolve the
               requested layout and model to a set of component names.

       -symbols name
               Specifies the name of the symbols component used to construct a
               keyboard layout.

       -synch  Force synchronization for X requests.

       -types name
               Specifies the name of the types component used to construct a
               keyboard layout.

       -variant name
               Specifies which variant of the keyboard layout should be used
               to determine the components which make up the keyboard
               description. The -variant option may only be used once.
               Multiple variants can be specified as a comma-separated list
               and will be matched with the layouts specified with -layout.

       -verbose|-v [level]
               Specifies level of verbosity in output messages.  Valid levels
               range from 0 (least verbose) to 10 (most verbose).  The default
               verbosity level is 5.  If no level is specified, each -v or
               -verbose flag raises the level by 1.

       -version
               Prints the program's version number.

USING WITH xkbcomp
       If you have an Xserver and a client shell running on different
       computers and some XKB configuration files on those machines are
       different, you can get problems specifying a keyboard map by model,
       layout, and options names.  This is because setxkbmap converts its
       arguments to names of XKB configuration files according to files that
       are on the client-side computer, then sends these file names to the
       server where xkbcomp has to compose a complete keyboard map using files
       which the server has.  Thus if the sets of files differ in some way,
       the names that setxkbmap generates can be unacceptable on the server
       side.  You can solve this problem by running the xkbcomp on the client
       side too.  With the -print option setxkbmap just prints the file names
       in an appropriate format to its stdout and this output can be piped
       directly to the xkbcomp input.  For example, the command

       setxkbmap us -print | xkbcomp - $DISPLAY

       makes both steps run on the same (client) machine and loads a keyboard
       map into the server.

SEE ALSO
       xkbcomp(1), xkeyboard-config(7)

FILES
       /usr/local/share/X11/xkb

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