Bug 7292 - Wrong key mapping on french macbook keyboards
Summary: Wrong key mapping on french macbook keyboards
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: xkeyboard-config
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: high normal
Assignee: xkb
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Reported: 2006-06-21 10:33 UTC by Bertrand Rousseau
Modified: 2008-12-17 08:44 UTC (History)
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Attachments
modified files for swapping the keys in macbook french keyboards (7.46 KB, application/octet-stream)
2006-06-21 10:34 UTC, Bertrand Rousseau
Details

Description Bertrand Rousseau 2006-06-21 10:33:25 UTC
I'm using xorg on my macbook with ubuntu dapper. My xorg.conf is configured as
followed:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"CoreKeyboard"

	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option 		"XkbModel"	"macbook"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"fr"
EndSection

And I'm using the updated fr layout that can be found on
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6382

The keyboard works perfectly except that the keys "@ #" and "< >" are swapped.
This is nothard to fix, but how and where to fix in a clean way is not evident.

I fixed this by changing a little bit rules/xorg (so that it recognize "macbook"
model and load a little extra configuration in symbols/macintosh_vndor/apple for
attributing the right keys). I'm not sure that it's the right thing to do.

I'll include modified files as an attachments.
Comment 1 Bertrand Rousseau 2006-06-21 10:34:11 UTC
Created attachment 6008 [details]
modified files for swapping the keys in macbook french keyboards
Comment 2 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2006-06-21 13:51:21 UTC
Are you talking about xkeyboard-config or xkbdata? IIRC it was fixed at some
point. Could you please have a look at xkeyboard-config CVS - and, if possible,
attach a patch against it.
Comment 3 Benjamin Close 2008-01-11 02:37:44 UTC
Bugzilla Upgrade Mass Bug Change

NEEDSINFO state was removed in Bugzilla 3.x, reopening any bugs previously listed as NEEDSINFO.

  - benjsc
    fd.o Wrangler
Comment 4 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2008-12-17 08:44:18 UTC
No answer fo 2.5 years


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