keysym

keysym — The symbolic name of a key on a keyboard.

Synopsis

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.

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.

Last revised by Norman Walsh on 6 Jun 2011 (git hash: 6ffcc7640bbc5f852a318e452c9f210f03292cb9)