How to use xkbprint?
There are no examples in the manual and every file I've tried needs some geometry.
$ xkbcomp /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ua tmp/ua.xkm
$ xkbprint tmp/ua.xkm
Cannot open "tmp/ua.xkm" to read geometry
$ xkbprint /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ua
Error: Couldn't read geometry from XKM file "/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ua"
Exiting
The source can be ... or an X display specification.
xkbprint :0 -o xkbprint_output.ps
To build on gioele's answer, to preview custom keyboard layout, you can also use xkbcomp
like this:
setxkbmap ua -print | xkbcomp - - | xkbprint - - | ps2pdf - > ua.pdf
ua
being the desired keyboard layout.
Inspect setxkbmap -print
— it provides xkbcomp
with geometry, symbols, keycodes, ...