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Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10 on my MacBook Pro
I've been using Ubuntu on my mac for a while and everything pretty much works without any cofiguration on Intrepid, but there were a couple of annoying problems that I had to sort out.
# and € keys on UK macintosh keyboard layout
Hash and euro didn't work which can be a pain, so I've mapped them to the key left of the Z key (marked ~`)
You probably should create a new keyboard layout but I just added the new key mapping to the existing gb symbols file.
Open it with:
sudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gb
Scroll down to the United Kingdom - Macintosh bit at the bottom and replace the two lines underneath with:
key <AE02> { [ 2, at ] };
key <AE03> { [ 3, sterling ] };
key <LSGT> { [ numbersign, EuroSign ] };
and log out for it to take effect.
Touchpad scrolling and double tap right-click
To get the touchpad working properly on Intrepid I had to configure HAL.
Edit a new .fdi file for it:
gedit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/synaptics.fdi
then paste this into it and save:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="input.x11_driver" contains="synaptics">
<merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig1" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.HorizTwoFingerScroll" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.VertEdgeScroll" type="string">false</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.HorizEdgeScroll" type="string">false</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">3</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
You need to restart hal for it to take effect and probably log out and in again
sudo /etc/init.d/hal restart
