French AZERTY keyboard not mapped correctly

[badwulfy]

Hello,

I just installed Asahi Linux and find out that some keys does not map correctly with my Macbook Air french keyboard. I tried all Apple keyboard models in the settings, but it does not seem to change anything.

For reference, here is the mac French layout (no shift or option key pressed):

The >< and the #@ key are reversed : if I press on @ it types a < and vice versa. Same with the option key pressed or shift pressed or option+shift pressed.
All other keys are mapped correctly.

There is also some combination of keys that does not work as in macOS. I have circled in green the combinations that do not work and indicated in green if another character is typed when combination pressed.

Shift pressed:

Option pressed:

If you need any other information, I'll be glad to give them.

Thank for your awesome work and thank you in advance for your help.

[f-fritz]

Hey,
would you mind testing this updated configuration: https://github.com/f-fritz/xkeyboard-config/blob/asahi/symbols/fr

DISCLAIMER: Proceed at your own risk, create a backup of the original file and maybe also make sure you can access the machine via SSH in case the keyboard config breaks and you are no longer able to use the terminal on the machine itself.

Then replace the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fr with the one mentioned above (use the RAW view to download)

You might then need to log out and in again in order to apply the change. Make sure the Layout "French (Macintosh)" is selected in your Language & Region System Settings Pane and activated as well

The updated configuration should then look like this

[badwulfy]

Hello.

Thanks for your help. My apologies, I've had some personal problems in the last few days and I really didn't have time to look at it before.

So I downloaded the file you pointed out and put it in the /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ folder.
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to have changed anything. Even in the preview, the keys are same as before.

I double checked 3 times that the file was copied. I even checked the hash and compared it with the one downloaded from your repository:

93215c7439b10993de69e3236e94c865 /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fr

I checked via the localectl command that my configuration is correct. According to me, everything is good:

   System Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: fr
      X11 Layout: fr
       X11 Model: macintosh

I don't quite understand what I missed. 😅 If you have an idea, I'm in!

EDIT : in my first message, the localectl output was wrong. I have edited my message.

[f-fritz]

Hey

I can reproduce your problem - I guess I did not understand entirely how these layouts work then... 🙈 When I select the French keyboard layout via the GUI System Settings App I can't even view the preview at all. Even though it worked in a debian VM using the gnome desktop.

However, aside from two keys (the one below ESC, left to "1" and the one between SHIFT L and "W") being swapped, it looks like my layout works / gets applied when running setxkbmap -layout fr -variant "mac" on the Terminal.

I'll take another look tomorrow