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It is possible to create your own custom xkb maps by adding files to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols. However, this directory is managed my dpkg and requires root access. Is there a way of placing a keymap under somewhere $HOME where setxkbmap file find it?

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  • The man page mentions -config but I got parse errors when I used this. Commented Nov 19, 2024 at 20:30
  • This documentation page mentions $HOME/.xkb/ along with some other paths but this didn't seem to work with setxkbmap Commented Nov 19, 2024 at 20:32

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Both xkbcomp and setxkbmap have a -I option to select custom directories.

setxkbmap -I"$HOME/.xkb" -types complete+foo

will combine types/complete from the system XKB installation with the file ~/.xkb/types/foo.

Libxkbcommon reads ~/.xkb by default, but despite the name, not all XKB tools use that library. In fact, the basic X11 tools do not use that library — it's only used by newer projects that are trying to replace X11.

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