Swiss keyboard layout with Apple keyboard (period instead of comma)

[Michael Tanner]

It is a known bug that two keys on an Apple keyboard are swapped. There is another bug which occurs on Swiss keyboards with an Apple model.
In Switzerland people have a period instead of a comma on their numpad. Also there is something weird with the default mapping of the upper left key below "ESC".
To correct this there is a workaround with xmodmap:

keycode 91 = period period
keycode 94 = section degree

I think this is not the best solution so I report this as a new bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Luca Lorenzetto (lorenzetto-luca)]

For a temporary layout switch fix:

echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/iso_layout

for a definitive fix, insert into /etc/modprobe.d/hid_apple.conf:

options hid_apple iso_layout=0

[Michael Tanner (thonixx)]

Why did you close the bug report? I think it is not fixed if I have to insert a line into a file so that it works.

[ceg (ceg)]

The hid_apple module will have set iso_layout=0 for some locales (all non-US?).

[ceg (ceg)]

set it _automatically_ of course

[Michael Tanner (thonixx)]

Luca, this does not work. The wrong keys are not fixed with that.

[Michael Tanner (thonixx)]

ceg, do you have updates?

[ceg (ceg)]

No updates, manually setting iso_layout=0 fixed the swapped keys for me, so someone still needs to fix that module.

[Michael Tanner (thonixx)]

It still persists in the newest Ubuntu 13.10 release. Someone needsd to still fix it.

[Michael Tanner (thonixx)]

Still there after two years. Is there no one interested in it? Unfortunately I don't have any knowledge to create a fix by myself.

[Simon Collis (zippy72)]

I can confirm that I have tried this tonight on 18.04.1 LTS with a Portuguese layout Apple wired keyboard, and iso_layout=0 doesn't fix the problem for me either

[Simon Collis (zippy72)]

Correction - it did fix it after a reboot.

[Lukas von Blarer (luksak)]

For me executing

echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/iso_layout

Fixes the issue temporarily.

Inserting this into /etc/modprobe.d/hid_apple.conf:

options hid_apple iso_layout=0

Doesn't fix the issue after reboot:

cat /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/iso_layout
1