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KBD_MODE(1) General Commands Manual KBD_MODE(1)
kbd_mode - report or set the keyboard mode
kbd_mode [ -a | -u | -k | -s | -d ] [ -f ] [ -C CONSOLE ]
Without argument, kbd_mode prints the current keyboard mode (RAW,
MEDIUMRAW or XLATE). Using the options it is possible to switch
the keyboard mode of the current console or the specified console.
-a, --ascii
set ASCII mode (XLATE).
-k, --keycode
set keycode mode (MEDIUMRAW).
-s, --scancode
set scancode mode (RAW).
-u, --unicode
set UTF-8 mode (UNICODE).
-d, --disable
set Disable mode (OFF).
-f, --force
switch the mode even if it makes the keyboard unusable.
-C, --console=DEV
the console device to be used.
Of course the "-a" is only traditional, and the code used can be
any 8-bit character set. With "-u" a 16-bit character set is
expected, and these chars are transmitted to the kernel as 1, 2,
or 3 bytes (following the UTF-8 coding). In these latter two
modes the key mapping defined by loadkeys(1) is used.
The Didable mode for the virtual console keyboard OFF to
compliment RAW in which all key events are ignored. The mode
prevents vt input buffers from overflowing when a program opens
but doesn't read from a tty, like Xorg using only evdev for input.
kbd_mode operates on the console specified by the "-C" option; if
there is none, the console associated with stdin is used.
Warning: changing the keyboard mode, other than between ASCII and
Unicode, will probably make your keyboard unusable. Set the "-f"
option to force such changes. This command is only meant for use
(say via remote login) when some program left your keyboard in the
wrong state. Note that in some obsolete versions of this program
the "-u" option was a synonym for "-s" and older versions of this
program may not recognize the "-f" option.
Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>
loadkeys(1)
This page is part of the kbd (Linux keyboard tools) project.
Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://www.kbd-project.org/⟩. If you have a bug report for this
manual page, send it to kbd@lists.altlinux.org. This page was
obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/legionus/kbd.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At that
time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
repository was 2025-07-01.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
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(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
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kbd 6 Apr 1994 KBD_MODE(1)
Pages that refer to this page: kbdinfo(1), loadkeys(1), unicode_start(1), unicode_stop(1), ioctl_console(2)
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