Bug#379148: xkb-data: macintosh XkbModel is broken

[Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:04:42PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> This bug appears to have partly resurfaced in 0.9, though the keys are
> slightly different.  This is for a GB (UK) Macintosh USB keyboard.
> 
> Observed  Expected  Key Location                                       Keycode
> --------  --------  -------------------------------------------------  -------
> `         §         Top left, left of '1'                              49
> ~         ±         Top left, left of '1' (shifted)                    49
> <         `         Left of 'Z'                                        94
> >         ~         Left of 'Z' (shifted)                              94
> 
> From xorg.conf:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
>         Driver          "kbd"
>         Option          "CoreKeyboard"
>         Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
>         Option          "XkbModel"      "macintosh"
>         Option          "XkbLayout"     "gb"
> #       Option          "XkbOptions"    "grp:toggle"
> #       Option          "XkbOptions"    "altwin:meta_win"
> EndSection

Hi Roger,

this issue has been discussed at length on debian-powerpc during
last months.  In fact it is due to the kernel failing to detect
the right keyboard.  Unconditionnally swapping the 2 keys as had
been done in 0.8-7 was thus not a good fix. because this will
cause trouble to other users.  There seems to be no automatic
solution, so an option has been added since 0.8-13 to fix it
manually when needed, try
       Option     "XkbOptions"    "apple:badmap"
More informations are available in /usr/share/doc/xkb-data/README.Debian.
In my opinion, there is no bug here.

Denis