hi there, to anyone looking for keymaps for the new iBook G4 British keyboard; i have attached the console-data keymap (save as /usr/share/keymaps/mac/ibookg4-british.kmap.gz). type `install-keymap ibookg4-british` once to load and save the keys for good.) this keymapping was written by George Wright <gwright@kde.org> and i performed a few minor edits to make it agree with the MacOS behaviour. also attached is the xkb extension file (save as /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/gb_new). to use it add Option "XkbModel" "macintosh" Option "XkbLayout" "gb_new" to the keyboard rules in your XF86Config file. these files have been sent to the relevant package maintainers for hopeful inclusion in the next release. an annoying thing about this new Apple keyboard is that the # key is not marked physically on any of the keys. it is bound in MacOS to AltGr+3 (even though AltGr is marked as "alt" physically on the keyboard) i have this setup working in the console and X for extended Latin-9 characters (such as §±¤) in MacOS, every key seems to have an AltGr binding... i did not have time to create the full table for all the keys. this is just created from the keys which are physically marked on the keyboard, plus ¢ and #. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/
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