iBook G4 (ppc), finnish keyboard, brackets?

César Espino cespinoq at gmail.com
Thu Nov 11 19:08:09 UTC 2004


I had the same problem but with a latin keyboard, thanks to your
comment i fixed the probem.

Thanks.


On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:55:04 +0100, Martin Pitt
<martin.pitt at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi Jari!
> 
> Jari Oksanen [2004-11-11  8:20 +0000]:
> 
> 
> > I have an iBook G4 with Ubuntu 4.10. Most important things work just fine (even
> > optimized blas). The biggest problem is the keyboard: I can't type brackets and
> > braces with Finnish keyboard. I have tried all combinations of fn, shift, alt,
> > and apple + ordinary keys, but all in vain. The only working solution so far has
> > been to switch to us keyboard when typing brackets or braces. This is clumsy,
> > since I have to change back very soon after that, or ?/-+*: and all other signs
> > will be in obscure keys with the us keyboard.
> >
> > My current keyboard layout is "Finnish fi(basic)". Keyboard model is "macintosh
> > (no description)". I also tried with "Genereric 104-key PC" which was the choice
> > after installation. All in vain.
> 
> This is currently discussed on ubuntu-devel and on bug
> https://bugzilla.ubuntulinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2327
> 
> On
> 
>  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> 
> you find an easy solution which maps the Apple key as an AltGr
> emulation.
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> Martin
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