-h --help
Prints the program's version number and a short usage
message to the program's standard error output and exits.
-i --short-info
Prints some characteristics of the kernel's keyboard
driver. The items shown are:
Keycode range supported by the kernel
This tells what values can be used after the
keycode keyword in keytable files. See keymaps(5)
for more information and the syntax of these files.
Number of actions bindable to a key
This tells how many different actions a single key
can output using various modifier keys. If the
value is 16 for example, you can define up to 16
different actions to a key combined with modifiers.
When the value is 16, the kernel probably knows
about four modifier keys, which you can press in
different combinations with the key to access all
the bound actions.
Ranges of action codes supported by the kernel
This item contains a list of action code ranges in
hexadecimal notation. These are the values that
can be used in the right hand side of a key
definition, ie. the vv's in a line
keycode xx = vv vv vv vv
(see keymaps(5) for more information about the
format of key definition lines). dumpkeys(1) and
loadkeys(1) support a symbolic notation, which is
preferable to the numeric one, as the action codes
may vary from kernel to kernel while the symbolic
names usually remain the same. However, the list of
action code ranges can be used to determine, if the
kernel actually supports all the symbols
loadkeys(1) knows, or are there maybe some actions
supported by the kernel that have no symbolic name
in your loadkeys(1) program. To see this, you
compare the range list with the action symbol list,
see option --long-info below.
Number of function keys supported by kernel
This tells the number of action codes that can be
used to output strings of characters. These action
codes are traditionally bound to the various
function and editing keys of the keyboard and are
defined to send standard escape sequences. However,
you can redefine these to send common command
lines, email addresses or whatever you like.
Especially if the number of this item is greater
than the number of function and editing keys in
your keyboard, you may have some "spare" action
codes that you can bind to AltGr-letter
combinations, for example, to send some useful
strings. See loadkeys(1) for more details.
Function strings
You can see you current function key definitions
with the command
dumpkeys --funcs-only
-l -s --long-info
This option instructs dumpkeys to print a long information
listing. The output is the same as with the --short-info
appended with the list of action symbols supported by
loadkeys(1) and dumpkeys(1), along with the symbols'
numeric values.
-n --numeric
This option causes dumpkeys to by-pass the conversion of
action code values to symbolic notation and to print the
in hexadecimal format instead.
-f --full-table
This makes dumpkeys skip all the short-hand heuristics
(see keymaps(5)) and output the key bindings in the
canonical form. First a keymaps line describing the
currently defined modifier combinations is printed. Then
for each key a row with a column for each modifier
combination is printed. For example, if the current keymap
in use uses seven modifiers, every row will have seven
action code columns. This format can be useful for example
to programs that post-process the output of dumpkeys.
-Sshape --shape=shape
-t --funcs-only
When this option is given, dumpkeys prints only the
function key string definitions. Normally dumpkeys prints
both the key bindings and the string definitions.
-k --keys-only
When this option is given, dumpkeys prints only the key
bindings. Normally dumpkeys prints both the key bindings
and the string definitions.
-d --compose-only
When this option is given, dumpkeys prints only the
compose key combinations. This option is available only
if your kernel has compose key support.
-ccharset --charset=charset
This instructs dumpkeys to interpret character code values
according to the specified character set. This affects
only the translation of character code values to symbolic
names. Valid values for charset currently are iso-8859-X,
Where X is a digit in 1-9. If no charset is specified,
iso-8859-1 is used as a default. This option produces an
output line `charset "iso-8859-X"', telling loadkeys how
to interpret the keymap. (For example, "division" is 0xf7
in iso-8859-1 but 0xba in iso-8859-8.)
-v --verbose
-V --version
Prints version number and exits.
