InstallingDebianOn/Apple/PageFragmentKeyboard

Apple Keyboard

You can set up the keyboard layout with this command:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

This will change the config file /etc/default/keyboard into something like this:

XKBMODEL="apple_laptop"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT="mac"
XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

… or another example:

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="fr"
XKBVARIANT="mac"
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:rwin_switch"

The hid_apple module has a parameter called 'fnmode' to change the behaviour of the 'fn'-key

There's three settings for fnmode:

0 = disabled: Disable the 'fn' key. Pressing 'fn' has no effect
1 = fkeyslast: Enable the 'fn' key. Pressing 'F1-F12' keys will act as special keys. Pressing 'fn'+'F1-F12' will behave like 'F1-F12'.
2 = fkeysfirst: Enable the 'fn' key. Pressing 'F1-F12' keys will behave like the real 'F1-F12'. Pressing 'fn'+'F8' will act as the special key (play/pause in this case).

There's several ways to set this parameter:

using sysfs, for example:

$ echo 2 | sudo tee /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/fnmode

as a module parameter (won't work if you compile hid_apple in your kernel):

$ echo options hid_apple fnmode=2 | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/hid_apple.conf 
$ sudo modprobe --dry-run hid_apple

if this throws no error you can

$ sudo update-initramfs -u

on the kernel command line: edit /etc/default/grub, and add the following to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable:
```
hid_apple.fnmode=2
```

The hid_apple module also has a parameter called 'iso_layout'

0 means international layout, so on an 'English International' keyboard the '§±'-key will be top left, and the '`~'-key will be next to left shift
1 swaps it around

There's several ways to set this parameter:

using sysfs, for example:

$ echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/iso_layout

as a module parameter (won't work if you compile hid_apple in your kernel):

$ echo options hid_apple iso_layout=0 | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/hid_apple.conf 
$ sudo modprobe --dry-run hid_apple

if this throws no error you can

$ sudo update-initramfs -u

on the kernel command line: edit /etc/default/grub, and add the following to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable:
```
hid_apple.iso_layout=0
```