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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 CONSOLE (or the currently active one, if no  -C  op‐
       tion is present) from a shell script.

       If  the  final  value argument is not specified, kbdinfo will print the result 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 AT gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Michael Schutte <michi AT debian.org> for the  Debian  GNU/Linux
       system (but may be used by others).



                                              June 2011                                   KBDINFO(1)