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Name

xkeycaps - graphically display and edit the X keyboard mapping

Synopsis

xkeycaps [-toolkitoption ...] [-option ...]

Description

The xkeycaps program displays a keyboard. Moving the mouse over a key describes the keysyms and modifiers that that key generates. Clicking left on a key simulates a KeyPress event. Clicking right on a key brings up a menu of operations, including a command to change the keysyms that the key generates. This program is, in part, a graphical front-end to xmodmap(1) .

Options

xkeycaps accepts all of the standard toolkit options, and also accepts the following options:
-keyboard keyboard-name or -kbd keyboard-name
Specifies the type of keyboard to display. There are many different computer keyboards in the world, and xkeycaps must know which one you are using in order to function correctly. Case does not matter when specifying a keyboard name.

If you're running on the console display of a Sun or HP, then xkeycaps will interrogate the attached keyboard hardware directly to determine what keyboard you're using. But if you're running remotely, or on another type of machine, then you must specify a keyboard somehow.

-help
Lists the recognized values for the -keyboard option.
-gutterwidth number or -gw number
Specifies the number of pixels of space to leave between each key.
-font fontname
Specifies the font to use to display the keycaps.