kbdd - XKB daemon

Simple daemon and library to make per window layout using XKB (X KeyBoard Extension).

Features

• dbus interface
• set layout group by its number
• switch to the previous layout
• kbdd supports only EWMH compatible systems, if you need support for others, please request

Requirements

In order to build kbdd you need:

• xorg header files with xkb support
• glib header files
• dbus-glib header files (optional)

Installation

Program uses autotools installation system, so installation can be done in next steps [1]_::

./configure options
make
make install

Configuration options:

• enable-debug - [default: disabled] adds additional debuging info
• enable-dbus - [default: enabled] enable dbus support

.. [1] If you use git version, you should generate installation files: you should use::

    aclocal ; automake --add-missing ; autoreconf

and then proceed to ordinary installation. Of cause you should need to have autotools package installed

Running kbdd

To run kbdd you can just run /usr/bin/kbdd to use kbdd in daemon mode, or use /usr/bin/kbdd -n to run in verbose mode.

More info

You can go to kbdd Wiki_ to check usecases described.

.. _kbdd Wiki: http://github.com/qnikst/kbdd/wiki/Usecases

Known bugs

Sometimes meta4 key lips in awesome, this bug was never reproduced anywere but on one host.

Troubleshooting

All bugs and issues can be posted to http://github.com/qnikst/kbdd/issues or sent to jabber: [email protected]