Before I speculate on more details about this problem, let me add that
pdecat's persistent fix works fine but requires an additional `update-
initramfs -u -k all` for the option to be set correctly.
I own two Apple aluminium keyboards of different generations (German
layout) , one MacBook Air and one old Early-2008 white MacBook. While
the laptops seem to work fine for quite some time now, both alu
keyboards experienced this issue in different Ubuntu releases; at least
one of them always suffers from it up until today. (Count this as
confirmed for Quantal.)
In the past, I used the xmodmap fix from above, but that didn't work out now
because of Bug #1016996. Since I didn't know about pdecat's fix at first, I
dived a bit into the shady areas of XKB configuration and found out that XKB
offers options called apple:badmap and 'apple:goodmap' targeting the exact
same problem. Those are listed in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base and
`[…]/evdev`, but not in the respective `.lst` and `.xml` files and therefore
don't show up in the GNOME keyboard options dialog.
When it comes to persisent configuration, I didn't succeed in settings the
options via `xorg.conf` as described by [1] and [2]. Running `setxkbmap […]`
at session start through `gnome-session-properties` works in principal, but
seems to conflict with settings from the GNOME keyboard options. (Only one of
them will be set due to what seems to be some kind of race-condition.) What
worked for me was running the command via `.profile`, but just then I came
across pdecat's much simpler and system-wide approach :-).
As there seem to be different generations of Apple keyboards with different
behaviours out there, I believe that there won't be a general fix for this
problem.
What should however be done in my opinion, is offering a simple way to get the
right configuration. I think the GNOME keyboard options are the right place to
do that, and therefore the apple:badmap option should be added to the `.lst`
and `.xml` files like described above. That's why I'm adding xkeyboard-config
to the affected packages.
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook#X11_.28X_Window.29
[2]
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Apple_Keyboard#.3C_and_.3E_have_changed_place_with_.C2.A7_and_.C2.BD
** Also affects: xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Apple USB ISO keyboard has incorrectly swapped keys
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