KBDINFO(1) General Commands Manual KBDINFO(1)
NAME
kbdinfo - obtain information about the status of a console
SYNOPSIS
kbdinfo [-C DEVICE] getmode [text|graphics]
kbdinfo [-C DEVICE] gkbmode [raw|xlate|mediumraw|unicode]
kbdinfo [-C DEVICE] gkbmeta [metabit|escprefix]
kbdinfo [-C DEVICE] gkbled [scrolllock|numlock|capslock]
DESCRIPTION
kbdinfo is an interface to KDGETMODE, GKBMODE, GKBMETA and GKBLED
ioctls. Its primary use case is to query the status of the given CON-
SOLE (or the currently active one, if no -C option is present) from a
shell script.
If the final value argument is not specified, kbdinfo will print the re-
sult of the desired ioctl to the standard output. Otherwise, the given
value is compared to the actual result, and the utility will exit with a
status code of 0 for a match, 1 otherwise. No text is printed for this
style of invocation.
SEE ALSO
kbd_mode(1)
AUTHOR
kbdinfo is Copyright © 2011 Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>.
This manual page was written by Michael Schutte <michi@debian.org> for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
June 2011 KBDINFO(1)
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