== XKB - X Keyboard Extension ==

The XKB data files for the various keyboard models, layouts, and locales are now maintained by [[http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig|the X Keyboard Config project on freedesktop.org]]

some helpful links:
 * [[http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/xorg-docs/input/XKB-Config.html|The XKB Configuration Guide]]
 * [[http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/xorg-docs/input/XKB-Enhancing.html|How to further Enhance XKB Configuration]]
 * en: http://pascal.tsu.ru/en/xkb/
 * ru: http://pascal.tsu.ru/other/xkb/
 * Patch XKB to support more than 128 keys: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/flameeyes/2005/06/15/and_the_keyboard_lose_the_match
 * [[http://who-t.blogspot.com/2008/09/rmlvo-keyboard-configuration.html|RMLVO keyboard configuration]] (rules, models, layouts, variants and options)
 * [[http://hektor.umcs.lublin.pl/~mikosmul/computing/articles/custom-keyboard-layouts-xkb.html|Creating custom keyboard layouts for X11 using XKB]]
 * [[http://www.charvolant.org/~doug/xkb/html/index.html|An Unreliable Guide to XKB Configuration]]
 * [[XKBLayoutCreationNotes|XKB Layout Creation Notes]]

The original XKB extension protocol and library specs are available in several formats:
 * [[http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/doc/xorg-docs/tree/specs/XKB?id=XORG-7_0|Original XKB specifications in FrameMaker format, as previously found in the xorg-docs module in git]]
 * [[http://www.x.org/docs/XKB/|Original XKB specifications from X11R6.4 in PostScript & PDF]]
 * [[http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/libX11/XKB/xkblib.html|XKB libX11 API documentation in HTML, generated from current DocBook sources]]
 * [[http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/kbproto/xkbproto.html|XKB protocol specification in HTML, generated from current DocBook sources]]
 * [[http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/libX11/XKB/xkblib.pdf|XKB libX11 API documentation in PDF 1.4, generated from current DocBook sources]]
 * [[http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/kbproto/xkbproto.pdf|XKB protocol specification in PDF 1.4, generated from current DocBook sources]]