libxkbcommon

Install command:
brew install libxkbcommon

Keyboard handling library

https://xkbcommon.org/

License: MIT

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/libxkbcommon.json

Formula code: libxkbcommon.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
macOS on
Intel
sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 1.13.2
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

libxcb 1.17.0 X.Org: Interface to the X Window System protocol
xkeyboard-config 2.48 Keyboard configuration database for the X Window System

Depends on when building from source:

bison 3.8.2 Parser generator
meson 1.12.1 Fast and user friendly build system
ninja 1.13.2 Small build system for use with gyp or CMake
pkgconf 3.0.10 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Uses from macOS: libxml2

Binaries: xkbcli

GitHub Packages downloads:

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Installs5,12411,48155,847
Installs (--HEAD)001
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