Author: Nibaldo González ([email protected])

Last Change: February 2021

Last Version: Version 15 is included in KDE Frameworks 5.80.0+ and is based on AppArmor 3.0.

This file is part of the KDE's KSyntaxHighlighting Framework.

Add syntax highlighting to KDE text editors (such as Kate, KWrite, KDevelop or any application that uses the KSyntaxHighlighting or KTextEditor Framework) for the AppArmor Security Profiles.

The apparmor.xml file contains the definition of the syntax highlighting. If you want to test the highlighting, you can find a sample AppArmor profile in the test folder.

For details on the syntax of AppArmor profiles, visit:

• AppArmor Documentation: https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/wikis/Documentation
• Man Page of apparmor.d: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hirsute/en/man5/apparmor.d.5.html
• AppArmor Repository: https://gitlab.com/apparmor

The syntax highlighting definition files, of the KSyntaxHighlighting Framework, consist of XML files that are compiled in the KDE Frameworks libraries.

However, these XML files can also be stored in:

For more details of KSyntaxHighlighting Framework, visit:

• Official Repository: https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting
• Documentation: https://docs.kde.org/?application=katepart&branch=trunk5&path=highlight.html

If you do not have the latest version of KDE Frameworks, you can manually install the latest apparmor.xml file.

Copy the apparmor.xml file to the directory of the XML syntax definition files, mentioned in the previous section.

Ex.: For local user:

mkdir -p $HOME/.local/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/syntax/
cp ./apparmor.xml $HOME/.local/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/syntax/

For all users:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/syntax/
sudo cp ./apparmor.xml /usr/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/syntax/

Syntax highlighting of AppArmor profiles is automatically applied to named files: bin.*, sbin.*, usr.bin.*, usr.sbin.*, usr.lib.*, usr.lib64.*, usr.lib32.*, usr.libx32.*, usr.libexec.*, usr.local.bin.*, usr.local.sbin.*, usr.local.lib*, opt.*, etc.cron.*, snap.*, snap-update-ns.* & snap-confine.*.

You can also force the syntax highlighting, by writing a comment with:

kate: syntax AppArmor Security Profile;