german macintosh keyboard layout uses alt-gr as standard modifier

[jfortmann]

Note: I'm currently running in Parallels. This could be an artifact of virtualisation, but I don't actually believe it is.

On a German Keyboard, alternative keys (such as @, €) are accessed via ALT+letter (e.g. ALT-L, ALT-E correspondingly).
In Ubuntu, these keys are instead accessed with ALT-GR+letter (i.e. the right ALT key, not the left one).

This bug might be a result of Ubuntu using the ALT key as a menu key (i.e. ALT-E opens edit menu).
If this is the case, I ask you to consider remapping the menu key to CMD. (i.e. ALT-E -> €, CMD-E Edit menu).

In case this bug doesn't get resolved, please followup with a solution I can apply myself.

[Sebastian Urban (surban)]

Same problem in not virtualized environment. Running on an iMac Core 2 Duo with Pro Keyboard.

To clearify: in Mac OS X you get use both Alt keys (left and right) as modifiers to get special characters (for example ALT+L for @). In Ubuntu this only works with the right Alt key.

[Sebastian Urban (surban)]

This is especially a problem on german Apple notebooks (MacBook, MacBook Pro) as there is no right Alt key. On these models it is then impossible to enter vital characters like @ and \ .

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

Probably this is not a bug but a feature request, however have you tried to configure the behaviour you're looking at modifying keyboard settings with gnome-keyboard-settings?

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

is gnome-keyboard-properties

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

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