> [!NOTE]
> This is an bond-wm fork of the npm keysym to remove use of Node fs APIs and __dirname.

Keysym

This library converts among X11 keysyms, unicodes, and string names in node.js.

Why would anybody want to do that? Why indeed, dear reader. Why indeed.

Methods

- fromKeysym - look up a record from an integral keysym
- fromUnicode - look up a record from its integral unicode position
- fromName - look up a record by name

You can also get at all the records at require('keysym').records.

Record Format

Records are just hashes with fields: keysym, unicode, status, ane name.
These fields come directly from
keysyms.txt,
except keysym and unicode are converted from hexadecimal strings to integers.

Example

Look up keysym records from a unicode position

var ks = require('keysym');
console.dir(ks.fromUnicode(8))

Output:
[ { keysym: 65288
, unicode: 8
, status: 'f'
, names: [ 'BackSpace' ]
}
]

Installation

To install with npm:

npm install keysym

To run the tests with expresso:

expresso

Credits

This module is basically just a thin wrapper around
a public domain keysym dataset
compiled by
Markus G. Kuhn.

Specifically, it's from this file.