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Help installing in Macbook Pro #574

Open tcapelle opened 5 years ago

tcapelle commented 5 years ago

I managed to install Pop!_OS 18.0.4 in a Macbook pro 2011 with a failing Radeon HD 6750. (I was not able to install 19.0.4 It got stuck at creating recovery partition). Almost everything is working out of the box. Had to manually install broadcom drivers, and now I have wif (sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source). -I would like help to get a better trackpad driver. The excellent trackpad that macbook have, does not work very well. It is not responsive as always/ -I would like to disable the Radeon COMPLETELY, how do I do that? -I would like to be able to configure the cmd/ctrl keys as in a Mac (inverse them) Thank you for this magnificent OS Thomas

ErikSteNL commented 5 years ago

-I would like help to get a better trackpad driver. The excellent trackpad that macbook have, does not work very well. It is not responsive as always/

Drivers don't really work that way in Linux, you could try upgrading your kernel (I'll leave it up to you to find out how).

-I would like to disable the Radeon COMPLETELY, how do I do that?

In the upper right corner, click on the battery icon to open up menu, then click on the battery icon again to show the power options, here you should be able to choose between certain graphics modes and even CPU settings.

-I would like to be able to configure the cmd/ctrl keys as in a Mac (inverse them)

Try using Gnome as it is intended, maybe you'll like it. Otherwise I wouldn't know how to inverse them?

sikrob commented 5 years ago

First, good luck with the trackpad issue. I haven't tried Pop!_OS on my laptop, but historically I've found Linux track support to be good enough, not great. Hope you can figure out something that will work well for you there.

-I would like to be able to configure the cmd/ctrl keys as in a Mac (inverse them)

First, I echo trying to get used to the Linux key setup. I use macOS, Pop!_OS, and Win10 for my day job, and I've found it's way less confusing to just let each OS be it's own thing, especially when I have to switch between them. So many hot keys change anyway, what's a meta key position or two?

That said, I get wanting to have your computer setup the best way for you. Luckily, I think there is a tool for this called xmodmap. I haven't tried it, but it might be worth checking out – It appears to be specifically for the purpose of reassigning modifier key mapping!

sikrob commented 5 years ago

I tried it out and I think xmodmap is the ticket for swapping keys. xmodmap appears to be installed by default on Pop!_OS.

To use it, open up a terminal and run xmodmap. This will show you the current layout of your modifier keys, something like:

...
control    Control_L (0x25),   Control_R (0x69)
...
mod4   Super_L (0x85), ...
...

You can try to swap these using xmodmap by creating a configuration file for xmodmap to read. The file might, for example, look like this:

remove control = Control_L
remove mod4 = Super_L
add control = Super_L
add mod4 = Control_L

Then you can apply these changes with xmodmap path/to/your/config

You can write a file to undo the changes and similarly apply like the above.

You can check out man xmodmap for more details on usage and some best practices.