On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 12:46:01PM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Given the baseline option a user chooses as "language" during > installation, the codes sent by the keyboard should be interpreted.
> There should be files with the associations of (unicode) numbers and > keys on a keyboard. I don't think that information is "secret" in any > way. Where can I find those files? https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard This points to the configuration file /etc/default/keyboard. That points to the keyboard(5) man page. Which in turn points to the following resources: http://www.xfree86.org/current/XKB-Config.html https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_KeyBoard_extension http://pascal.tsu.ru/en/xkb/ http://www.charvolant.org/~doug/xkb/ http://xfree86.org/current/XKBproto.pdf The Arch wiki page points me to the xkbcomp(1) command, which tells me that keymaps are stored in a compiled form, and stored within the X server's memory. You can use xkbcomp to dump this to a file, and then inspect the file. Of course this does not tell us where the files normally live on the system, to be slurped up by the X server as it's beginning its lifespan. While looking for such files, which I did not quite find, I *did* find /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us which looks relevant. At least for me, since my keyboard is configured to have XKBLAYOUT="us".
