Upgrade libxkbcommon to xkbcommon-1.0.0 am: bffa8499cb am: 355b04ef6c am: 41abe66705

Original change: https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/external/libxkbcommon/+/1422356

Change-Id: Ib88f1aac9390897eb6f67bb64573197bd535577a
tree: 648dfaada5799a6227dd5f1af43d89ed8d71d96d
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  5. scripts/
  6. src/
  7. test/
  8. tools/
  9. xkbcommon/
  10. .editorconfig
  11. .uncrustify.cfg
  12. Android.bp
  13. LICENSE
  14. meson.build
  15. meson_options.txt
  16. METADATA
  17. MODULE_LICENSE_MIT
  18. NEWS
  19. OWNERS
  20. PACKAGING
  21. README.md
  22. xkbcommon-x11.map
  23. xkbcommon-x11.pc.in
  24. xkbcommon.map
  25. xkbcommon.pc.in
  26. xkbregistry.map
README.md

libxkbcommon

libxkbcommon is a keyboard keymap compiler and support library which processes a reduced subset of keymaps as defined by the XKB (X Keyboard Extension) specification. It also contains a module for handling Compose and dead keys and a separate library for listing available keyboard layouts.

Quick Guide

See Quick Guide.

Building

libxkbcommon is built with Meson:

meson setup build
ninja -C build

To build for use with Wayland, you can disable X11 support while still using the X11 keyboard configuration resource files thusly:

meson setup build \
    -Denable-x11=false \
    -Dxkb-config-root=/usr/share/X11/xkb \
    -Dx-locale-root=/usr/share/X11/locale
ninja -C build

API

While libxkbcommon's API is somewhat derived from the classic XKB API as found in X11/extensions/XKB.h and friends, it has been substantially reworked to expose fewer internal details to clients.

See the API Documentation.

Dataset

libxkbcommon does not distribute a keymap dataset itself, other than for testing purposes. The most common dataset is xkeyboard-config, which is used by all current distributions for their X11 XKB data. More information on xkeyboard-config is available here: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig

The dataset for Compose is distributed in libX11, as part of the X locale data.

Relation to X11

See Compatibility notes.

Development

An extremely rudimentary homepage can be found at https://xkbcommon.org

xkbcommon is maintained in git at https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon

Patches are always welcome, and may be sent to either xorg-devel@lists.x.org or wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org or in a GitHub pull request.

Bug reports (and usage questions) are also welcome, and may be filed at GitHub.

The maintainers are

Credits

Many thanks are due to Dan Nicholson for his heroic work in getting xkbcommon off the ground initially.