---
name: "xrdp-genkeymap"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "xrdp"
version: "0.10.1-3.1+deb13u2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/xrdp-genkeymap"
---

# xrdp-genkeymap(8)

key map generator for XRDP

## NAME

**xrdp-genkeymap** - key map generator for XRDP

## SYNTAX

**xrdp-genkeymap** *file*

## DESCRIPTION

**xrdp-genkeymap** extracts the key map used by the currently running X session to generated a mapping from Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) key codes to X keysyms and Unicode code points.

## OPTIONS

- *outfile*

  The key map information is stored in the file named *outfile*.

## FILES

- */etc/xrdp/km-XXXXXXXX.ini*

  Files containing the keyboard mapping for language *XXXXXXXX*, which is a 8 digit hexadecimal number identifying the country and language code.

  - **00000405**

    cs Czech

  - **00000407**

    de German

  - **00000409**

    en-us US English

  - **0000040c**

    fr French

  - **00000410**

    it Italian

  - **00000416**

    br Portuguese (Brazil)

  - **00000419**

    ru Russian

  - **0000041d**

    se Swedish

  - **00000809**

    en-uk UK English

## AUTHORS

Jay Sorg \<jsorg71@users.sourceforge.net\>\
 Simone Fedele \<ilsimo@users.sourceforge.net\>

## SEE ALSO

[**xrdp**(8)](/xrdp/8.md), [**setxkbmap**(1)](/setxkbmap/1.md), [**unicode**(7)](/unicode/7.md)

Description of Keyboard Input mapping on the FreeRDP wiki ⟨https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/wiki/Keyboard⟩

For more info on **xrdp** see ⟨http://www.xrdp.org/⟩