kmap2qmap
kmap2qmap
is a tool to generate keymaps for use on Embedded Linux. The source files have to be in standard Linux kmap
format that is e.g. understood by the kernel's loadkeys
command. This means you can use the following sources to generate qmap
files:
- The Linux Console Tools (LCT) project.
- Xorg X11 keymaps can be converted to the
kmap
format with theckbcomp
utility. - Since
kmap
files are plain text files, they can also be hand crafted.
The generated qmap
files are size optimized binary files.
kmap2qmap
is a command line program, that needs at least 2 files as parameters. The last one will be the generated .qmap
file, while all the others will be parsed as input .kmap
files. For example:
kmap2qmap i386/qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap include/compose.latin1.inc de-latin1-nodeadkeys.qmap
kmap2qmap
does not support all the (pseudo) symbols that the Linux kernel supports. If you are converting a standard keymap you will get a lot of warnings for things like Show_Registers
, Hex_A
, etc.: you can safely ignore those.
It also doesn't support numeric symbols (e.g. keycode 1 = 4242
, instead of keycode 1 = colon
), since these are deprecated and can change from one kernel version to the other.
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