keysym
keysym — The symbolic name of a key on a keyboard.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
- text
phrase(db._phrase)replaceable- Graphic inlines
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- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
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Attributes
Description
The keysym identifies the symbolic name of a
key on a computer keyboard. This is distinct from any scan code that it
may generate (keycode), or any symbolic name
(keysym) that might exist for the key.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline.
Parents
This element occurs in 52 elements.
Children
This element contains 16 elements.
See Also
accel, guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, keycap, keycode, keycombo, menuchoice, mousebutton, shortcut
Examples
1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> 2 <title>Example keysym</title> 4 <para>The <keycap>F1</keycap> key on an IBM PC keyboard generates the scan code <keycode>0x3B</keycode> when pressed. This value 6 is defined as <keysym>KEY_F1</keysym> in <filename class="headerfile">keyboard.h</filename>. 8 </para> 10 </article>
The F1 key on an IBM PC keyboard generates the
scan code 0x3B when pressed. This value
is defined as KEY_F1 in
keyboard.h.