use Xkb for keyboard mapping

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Issue migrated from trac ticket # 1049

component: keyboard | priority: major

2015-12-09 05:25:14: antoine created the issue

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Follow up from #371 (now changed title).

This is what Xephyr does / will be doing soon: [http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2015-December/048155.html] / [https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/67342/].

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2017-10-01 11:04:32: antoine commented

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This should allow us to workaround limitations in the core API, like having just 8 keysyms per keycode (see #1607#comment:3).

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2019-07-03 16:42:31: antoine commented

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This would help with #387

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2019-07-25 14:58:36: antoine commented

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See also #856

For wayland servers: #387

[https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon]

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2020-02-12 05:10:51: antoine commented

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See also #2597

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2020-03-06 07:57:28: antoine commented

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A simple, humble but comprehensive guide to XKB for linux