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author | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2014-11-29 16:13:30 +0100 |
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committer | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2014-11-29 16:13:30 +0100 |
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xorg-server/hw/xwin/ddraw.h
xorg-server/hw/xwin/glx/glshim.c
xorg-server/hw/xwin/winclipboard/xevents.c
xorg-server/hw/xwin/windialogs.c
xorg-server/hw/xwin/winmultiwindowshape.c
xorg-server/hw/xwin/winmultiwindowwindow.c
xorg-server/hw/xwin/winprefslex.l
xorg-server/hw/xwin/winshadddnl.c
xorg-server/hw/xwin/winshadgdi.c
xorg-server/hw/xwin/winwndproc.c
xorg-server/mi/miarc.c
xorg-server/os/connection.c
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diff --git a/xorg-server/xkeyboard-config/README b/xorg-server/xkeyboard-config/README index 2be1ab633..256402507 100644 --- a/xorg-server/xkeyboard-config/README +++ b/xorg-server/xkeyboard-config/README @@ -1,28 +1,46 @@ X Keyboard Extension -------------------- -The X Keyboard Extension essentially replaces the core protocol definition -of the keyboard. The extension makes it possible to clearly and explicitly -specify most aspects of keyboard behaviour on a per-key basis and to more -closely track the logical and physical state of the keyboard. It also -includes a number of keyboard controls designed to make keyboards more -accessible to people with physical impairments. +The X Keyboard (XKB) Extension essentially replaces the core protocol +definition of a keyboard. The extension makes it possible to specify +clearly and explicitly most aspects of keyboard behaviour on a per-key +basis, and to track more closely the logical and physical state of a +keyboard. It also includes a number of keyboard controls designed to +make keyboards more accessible to people with physical impairments. -There are five types of components in the server database corresponding to -five xkb symbolic names (symbols, geometry, keycodes, compat, and types) -which determine the keyboard behaviour. These five components can be -combined into a resulting keyboard mapping using the 'rules' component. +There are five components that define a complete keyboard mapping: +symbols, geometry, keycodes, compat, and types; these five components +can be combined together using the 'rules' component of the database +provided by this project, xkeyboard-config. -The complete specification can be found in: - http://www.x.org/current/doc/kbproto/xkbproto.pdf +The complete specification for the XKB Extension can be found here: -For XKB configuration information, see the 'docs/README.config' file. + http://xfree86.org/current/XKBproto.pdf -For information on how to further enhance XKB configuration, see the -'docs/README.enhancing' file. +xkeyboard-config +---------------- -For information on how to replace an existing XKB configuration database -with XKeyboardConfig, see the 'docs/HOWTO.transition' file. +This project provides a consistent, well-structured, frequently +released, open source database of keyboard configuration data. The +project is targeted to XKB-based systems. + +For XKB configuration information, see: + + docs/README.config + +For information on how to enhance the database itself, see: + + docs/README.enhancing + +For information on how to replace an older XKB configuration database +with the one provided by this project, see: + + docs/HOWTO.transition + +For guidelines to making contributions to this project, see: -Contribution guidelines are described on: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig/Rules + +To submit bug reports (and patches), please use the bugzilla system: + + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xkeyboard-config |