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Which keymap should I use for a wired Mac keyboard in Gentoo Linux?

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Mar 15, 20267460 views
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I just purchase the new wired Mac keyboard: Running on Gentoo Linux it works mostly fine. The only problem I am having is the function keys and swapping the Alt and Command keys to resemble a regular PC keyboard. When I tried switching to the "mac-us" keymap in I got garbage when typing (not even q…

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/etc/conf.d/keymaps

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I don’t know if this will work for Gentoo, but it might if you are using xmodmap. I found a fix that worked on Fedora 14 for me from the Ubuntu community wiki: To fix the Fn key issue, I did the following: I added the following to to switch the Alt …

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