iBook G4 (ppc), finnish keyboard, brackets?

[Martin Pitt]

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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