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dumpkeys
dumpkeys [options]
Print information about the keyboard driver's translation tables to standard output. Further information is available in the manual pages under keymaps(5).
Options
Print one line for each modifier/keycode pair, and prefix plain to each unmodified keycode.
Specify character set with which to interpret character code values. The default character set is iso-8859-1. The full list of valid character sets is available with the --help option.
Print compose key combinations only. Requires compose key support in the kernel.
Output in canonical, not short, form: for each key, print a row with modifier combinations divided into columns.
Print function-key string definitions only; do not print key bindings or string definitions.
Print help message and the version.
Print in short-info format, including information about acceptable keycode keywords in the keytable files; the number of actions that can be bound to a key; a list of the ranges of action codes (the values to the right of a key definition); and the number of function keys that the kernel supports.
Print key bindings only; do not print string definitions.
Print the same information as in --short-info, plus a list of the supported action symbols and their numeric values.
Print action code values in hexadecimal notation; do not attempt to convert them to symbolic notation.
Print using num to determine table shape. Values of num are:
0 Default.
1 Same as --full-table.
2 Same as --separate-lines.
3 One line for each keycode up to the first hole, then one line per modifier/keycode pair.
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