Apple Magic Keyboard seems to be misconfigured, wrong layout.

[69graves]

I am running the current release, on a Dell laptop.

I have an Apple Magic Keyboard, with numpad, connected via usb, as there is no bluetooth on the laptop.

Where the tilde key should be, on an American English keyboard, is now assigned to "<" and ">" when Shift is pressed.

I have far less experience with the FreeBSD side of things, so I find myself a bit lost as to how to configure the keyboard properly.

Of note is that using the laptop's native keyboard gives expected, properly configured results.

Also included is the link to the HW Probe database with the system's current configuration.

https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=b246d110af

[probonopd]

Please open System -> Applications -> Preferences -> Keyboard and see whether selecting Variants -> mac improves the situation.

If it does, we can consider to make it the default for systems with Apple keyboards.

[69graves]

This unfortunately did not have the desired effect. When this option was chosen, the key in question (tilde and hash mark) becomes a math symbol of some sort, like two “s” together.

With shift it becomes the “ plus or minus” symbol.

We’re sitting down to dinner in a bit, so I will follow up tomorrow morning. Thank you

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On Dec 28, 2021, at 1:59 PM, probonopd @.***> wrote:

 Please open System -> Applications -> Preferences -> Keyboard and see whether selecting Variants -> mac improves the situation.

If it does, we can consider to make it the default for systems with Apple keyboards.

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[probonopd]

Is this how the keys on your keyboard are printed?

[69graves]

This is indeed the keyboard in question.

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On Jan 2, 2022, at 3:56 AM, probonopd @.***> wrote:

 Is this how the keys on your keyboard are printed?

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[probonopd]

So we are talking about the button right beneath the esc key, correct?

[69graves]

Yes.

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On Jan 2, 2022, at 4:44 AM, probonopd @.***> wrote:

 So we are talking about the button right beneath the esc key, correct?

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[probonopd]

Can you please use the following article to find out which exact keyboard you have? Thanks!

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201794

[69graves]

It’s ANSI, US English. Do you need more than that?

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On Jan 2, 2022, at 7:21 AM, probonopd @.***> wrote:

 Can you please use the following article to find out which exact keyboard you have? Thanks!

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201794

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[probonopd]

Thanks, this should describe it enough.

Possibly this is caused by the system thinking you have an ISO keyboard whereas in reality you have an ANSI keyboard. Hence, possibly related: https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/issues/188

In my opinion it is a total shame that ANSI/ISO cannot be detected by inspecting the USB descriptors. The Mac has this dialog:

https://cdn.tutsplus.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=600/mac/authors/legacy/Jordan%20Merrick/2012/10/09/input-11.jpg

Looking at https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xkeyboard-config&sektion=7&format=html

What happpens when you run setxkbmap -model applealu_ansi?

Unfortunately I don't have an ANSI keyboard to test with.

[69graves]

I will try and get back to you.

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On Jan 5, 2022, at 12:48 PM, probonopd @.***> wrote:

 Thanks, this should describe it enough.

Possibly this is caused by the system thinking you have an ISO keyboard whereas in reality you have an ANSI keyboard.

In my opinion it is a total shame that ANSI/ISO cannot be detected by inspecting the USB descriptors. The Mac has this dialog:

https://cdn.tutsplus.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=600/mac/authors/legacy/Jordan%20Merrick/2012/10/09/input-11.jpg

Looking at https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xkeyboard-config&sektion=7&format=html

What happpens when you run setxkbmap -model applealu_ansi?

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[69graves]

I tried running the setxlbmap utility and nothing happened.

[probonopd]

We need to get some Xkb/Xorg/FreeBSD experts involved then. I don't know how to fix this. Maybe @rbreaves or @lproven knows?