and if I miss the shift, 'boom' repl killed. Sure `ctrl+shift-c` will copy things but it's fighting decades of fucking muscle memory. on Linux this has got to be the worst default ever made. Because `ctrl-c` sends an interrupt, I don't know what `ctrl-v` sends and I don't give a shit as long as it is not pasting my fucking buffer. One of the most common use cases for the `ctrl` key is COPYING shit and followed by PASTING shit and it DOES NOT WORK in a fucking TERMINAL. Coming from a Mac, my biggest and most consistent annoyance is that the `ctrl` key is fucking useless at best. 'cuz it turns out, I personally hate how Windows and Linux do things with `ctrl`. Please note the following rant is mostly tongue-in-cheek. I’ve already build the patch in Fedora Core (development), and the upstreams patch is availible here.This is great, btw. There seems to be some redraw bug in the applet, because the return key isn’t rendered right. I added not only fixes for the keycodes, I also added the correct symbol for the eject button, a geometry description, and an option to make the apple keys act as Alt (since they are in the normal Alt positions). So, I proudly present the result of my labor: So, I set out to add XKB configuration that lets you use the gnome control center to pick the right keyboard.

There are various places on the internet that shows you the magic xmodmap incantations you need to “fix” this, but I wanted a real fix that would let anyone set up a MacBook keyboard. The main problems are that the key to the left of “1” and the key to the left of “z” somehow got their keycodes swapped, and the fact that there is no right Alt which means its hard to type certain symbols (there is a right Apple key though). Well, I recently got a MacBook Pro, and the keyboard layout it used is slightly different than the regular pc105 keyboard. Why would anyone willingly look at XKB configuration you might ask. However, I’m now starting to see the light from above. I’ve spent most of yesterday and today in the ninth circle of X hell, also known as XKB onfiguration.

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