On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:38:12PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 07:27 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > > The current daily images now show the AT keymap list. I've tested this on > > Frank Lichtenheld's Powerbook G4 laptop, and all keys are mapped OK for > > the German keyboard. > > > > The only change from the USB-MAC keymaps is that the apple key no longer > > works as the modifier key. Instead these can be accessed using Fn-Alt, > > which can probably be explained as that is probably equivalent to the > > right-Alt key on "regular" AT keyboards on i386. > > > > AFAICT the options are: > > - should the AT keymaps be made to support the apple key as modifier key > > or > > - should we go back to using the USB-MAC keymaps for powerpc > > This may still be necessary, as some Apple keyboards tend to have > different layouts from 'standard' PC keyboards. Just as one example, the > Swiss German Apple keyboard has the @ symbol on the G key. AFAIK in some > other countries the layout can be completely different.
I believe in every country except pure-US, the layout is different, we had loads of problems with this with regard to X keyboard mappings. Friendly, Sven Luther
