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Keyboard layout map generation

I want to generate exactly the same than that :

custom layout

but in an HTML document (whatever the locale is)!

Is there a way to do this?

Solution

  • Here's the solution coming from a mate who is good when it comes to this kind of problems.

    Using shell command ps -Hef, I could see gkbd-keyboard-display -g 1 running.

    There's no man page.

    $ man gkbd-keyboard-display
No manual entry for gkbd-keyboard-display
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.

    Looking for this program:

    $ type gkbd-keyboard-display
gkbd-keyboard-display is hashed (/usr/bin/gkbd-keyboard-display)
$ file /usr/bin/gkbd-keyboard-display
/usr/bin/gkbd-keyboard-display: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
    ...dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
    ...for GNU/Linux 2.6.26, BuildID[sha1]=0xc4e, [...]

    So looking for the packet:

    $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/gkbd-keyboard-display
gkbd-capplet: /usr/bin/gkbd-keyboard-display
$

    Looking in the Web, found https://packages.debian.org/gkbd-capplet Add sid because it's the most up-to-date version: https://packages.debian.org/sid/gkbd-capplet

    From there, I clicked on the right option (Developer's information (PTS)) to see the source packet: it's this link: http://packages.qa.debian.org/libgnomekbd

    In the right column, "Links" I clicked on the link "Browse source code" https://sources.debian.net/src/libgnomekbd/unstable/

    I went into the debian folder then in the file watch, and from there I get the URL of the source code:

    https://sources.debian.net/src/libgnomekbd/3.6.0-1/debian/watch/

    From now on I'll have to understand how it works, and how to output all configurations in a way that I can read it in JSON format. Lots of work to do, but very interesting!