Keyboard problem (again)

[kant1304]

Hi

I've just installed the new Ubuntu release, and I'm pretty happy with the result :D Everything was settled on pretty fast, contrary to my previous attempts with Debian... However, I have met an annoying problem : all non-character and non-digit keys (/, -, @, #...) are not properly mapped on my current keyboard :( . Especially, I have not found the new key combination for the "@", and thus I cannot type it in any text.
I have also met a related problem, I suppose: the keys F10 and F11 aren't replacing the middle and right mouse buttons at all, they don't have any effect. Does anybody have an idea ?

Thanks in advance and thanks for the great job on Ubuntu

[robsta]

What is your keyboard layout (which language, physically)?

Rob

[Sorin Paliga]

Hello,

Beside the F11 and F 12 keys, which should be anyway removed for the ppc version, in favour of the Apple standard ctrl-click (and, of course, to keep all the Apple shortcuts, as far as possible), there is a general and acute problem with ALL the Linux distros I have tested (over 12): the coherence, definition and general features of the keyboard layouts. Linux has partially borrowed some MAC OS philosophy, unfortunately it has not got to a coherent end with the basic solutions. As I have been using MAC OS (mainly), also Windows and Linux, I may say that a parser/importer of MAC OS X keylayouts would be the best choice for ALL the Linux distros. Upon attempting to suggest this to Mandrake, Xandros, SuSE... teams, after months I found that all these depend on X.org, to which I have finally got several days ago, and am looking for the right place in that confusing site where I should forward the suggestion.
From my point of view, Linux cannot aspire (even with a good linspiration) to a gradual increase of users as long as it does not solve the specific problems of internationalization:
- an easy way to add keylayouts (even if it cannot be so easy as in MAC OS, just an installer or something);
- a keyboard view (again MAC OS style);
- an application capable of creating keylayouts (just like UKELELE or Alex Eulenberg's site for MAC OS X)

This would 'proletarise' the perspective from the user's point of view, not of developer's, as they are often divergent.
Ubuntu is an astonishing pc,amd and ppc linux distro; a rare case of software virtuosity. Unfortunately this will have no significant consequences as far as such simple, very simple questions are not solved. If wrong in my estimations, am ready to submit my head.

[SyL]

Hi

I've just installed the new Ubuntu release, and I'm pretty happy with the result :D Everything was settled on pretty fast, contrary to my previous attempts with Debian... However, I have met an annoying problem : all non-character and non-digit keys (/, -, @, #...) are not properly mapped on my current keyboard :( . Especially, I have not found the new key combination for the "@", and thus I cannot type it in any text.
I have also met a related problem, I suppose: the keys F10 and F11 aren't replacing the middle and right mouse buttons at all, they don't have any effect. Does anybody have an idea ?

Thanks in advance and thanks for the great job on Ubuntu Hi,
In the keyboard property, fittings tab (I'm not sure of the translation) and on keyboard model select macintosh - No decription
That work for me, no pb with the keyboard mapping on my PowerBook.
Hope that help you.

Ubuntu rulls

[kant1304]

Well thanks for all your answers, that was pretty cool... And Thank you Syl, your suggestion of setting "Macintosh - no decription" seems to work perfectly =D>

Viva Ubuntu !

[gilgamesh]

I've done this thanks a lot

but

i can't get any of other specail characters like pipe, accolade square brackets (i don't knoxw the correct name for crochets in english).

Do you know what can i do ??

Thanks

G