topic title: MacbookPro Canadian Multilingual Keyboard
Posts: 1
MellowRock
Joined: 22 Oct 2017
#1
Hi everyone,

I'm a new user of antiX Linux and as an IT student, I downloaded it to study low-ressources OS.

Despite some research online, I didn't find out a solution to fix my keyboard configuration. 

I run antiX on a VM with a MacbookPro, and I have a French Canadian (Multilingual) keyboard that doesn't fit with the Canadian Multilingual keyboard configuration proposed natively.
Apple Canadian Keyboard
Apple Canadian Keyboard


Other OS like Ubuntu takes in consideration this configuration.

Does someone know how could I fix this, then I can start to work properly with antiX .

Thanks !
Posts: 1,445
skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#2
man xkeyboard-config
informs 2 MacBook possibilities are recognized:
macbook78 MacBook/MacBook Pro
macbook79 MacBook/MacBook Pro (Intl)


I noticed that a command stexkbmap -variant variantname is available to specify the (I can't guess which) keyboard"variant"...

Code: Select all

multix
          ca: Canadian Multilingual
multi
           ca: Canadian Multilingual (first part)
multi-2gr
       ca: Canadian Multilingual (second part)



...but (found these instructions via forum search:"Canadian keyboard")
First, enable French Canadian fr_CA.UTF-8 UTF-8 in the locales
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Then set up the keyboard
sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-data
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration