XKBCLI-INTERACTIVE-WAYLAND(1) General Commands Manual XKBCLI-INTERACTIVE-WAYLAND(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

`xkbcli-interactive-wayland` — interactive debugger for Wayland keyboard keymaps

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

`xkbcli-interactive-wayland` \[`options`]

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

`xkbcli-interactive-wayland` is a commandline tool to interactively debug XKB keymaps by listening to Wayland events.

This requires a Wayland compositor to be running.

Press the ⟨Escape⟩ key to exit.

This is a debugging tool, its behavior or output is not guaranteed to be stable.

[`--help`](#help)

Print help and exit

[`--format`](#format) `keymap_format`

Specify the keymap format (numeric or label, e.g. “v1”)

[`--local-state`](#local)

Enable local state handling and ignore modifiers/layouts state updates from the compositor

[`--keymap`](#keymap) \[`PATH`]

Load the XKB keymap from a file instead of the keymap from the compositor. It implies `--local-state` . If `PATH` is empty or “-”, read the stdin.

[`--enable-compose`](#enable)

Enable Compose functionality

[`--verbose`](#verbose)

Enable verbose debugging output

[`-1,`](#1,) `--uniline`

Enable uniline event output

[`--multiline`](#multiline)

Enable multiline event output

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[xkbcli(1)](/man/os/libxkbcommon/xkbcli.1), [xkbcli-interactive-evdev(1)](/man/os/libxkbcommon/xkbcli-interactive-evdev.1), [xkbcli-interactive-x11(1)](/man/os/libxkbcommon/xkbcli-interactive-x11.1), [The libxkbcommon online documentation](https://xkbcommon.org)

June 4, 2024 Linux 4.19.0-gvisor

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Document: xkbcli-interactive-wayland(1) from libxkbcommon 1.13.2-r3 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon.git