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Keyboard Definition Files

ftpAxe has 30 keyboard definition files allowing you to use one of the 30 international PC keyboards. Each of them corresponds to the country your keyboard was designed for.

Your Keyboard Definition file has the .KMF extension. It resides in the ftpAxe's configuration files directory (in the location you specified when installing ftpAxe).

The basic purpose of a keyboard file is to assign PC keys to generate specific keysyms. A keysym is a key code that corresponds to a specific symbol supported by the X protocol.

A Keyboard Definition file is an ASCII source file that defines what key sequence is sent to a client when you press a given key on your PC's keyboard (i.e., keyboard mapping).

You can customize a keyboard by one of two ways:

- by modifying a selected (on installation) keyboard file;
- by choosing the userkbd.kmf keyboard file and then editing it.

The Keyboard Mapping option of ftpAxe's Telnet allows you to modify keyboard definition files.

These are some of the things you can do:

- Make any key on your keyboard send any supported X keysym to the host.
- Make use of extra keys on non-standard keyboards to send special keysyms to the host or to a client.

The Keyboard Mapping File format is described in Appendix A.

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