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1.2 KiB
33 lines
1.2 KiB
.TH KBDINFO 1 "June 2011" |
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.SH NAME |
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kbdinfo \- obtain information about the status of a console |
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.SH SYNOPSIS |
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\fBkbdinfo\fR [\-C \fIDEVICE\fR] getmode [text|graphics] |
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.LP |
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\fBkbdinfo\fR [\-C \fIDEVICE\fR] gkbmode [raw|xlate|mediumraw|unicode] |
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.LP |
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\fBkbdinfo\fR [\-C \fIDEVICE\fR] gkbmeta [metabit|escprefix] |
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.LP |
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\fBkbdinfo\fR [\-C \fIDEVICE\fR] gkbled [scrolllock|numlock|capslock] |
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.SH DESCRIPTION |
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.B kbdinfo |
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is an interface to KDGETMODE, GKBMODE, GKBMETA and GKBLED ioctls. Its |
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primary use case is to query the status of the given |
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.I CONSOLE |
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(or the currently active one, if no \-C option is present) from a shell |
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script. |
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.LP |
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If the final value argument is not specified, |
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.B kbdinfo |
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will print the result of the desired ioctl to the standard output. |
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Otherwise, the given value is compared to the actual result, and the |
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utility will exit with a status code of 0 for a match, 1 otherwise. No |
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text is printed for this style of invocation. |
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.SH "SEE ALSO" |
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.BR kbd_mode (1) |
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.SH AUTHOR |
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kbdinfo is Copyright \(co 2011 Alexey Gladkov |
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<gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>. |
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.LP |
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This manual page was written by Michael Schutte <michi@debian.org> for |
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the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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