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xkeyboard-config

brew install xkeyboard-config v2.47 MIT

Keyboard configuration database and keymap files for X11 and Wayland compositors.

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Provides the system keyboard layout definitions, symbol mappings, and variant rules that X11 and compatible compositors use to map physical keys to characters. Essential build/runtime dependency if you're working with X11 applications or compositors that need keyboard input handling; rarely used directly but required by many display servers and input systems.

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