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Changing the keyboard layout for Scientific Linux on a MacBook

Friday, June 5th, 2009

I recently installed Scientific Linux in a virtual Machine on my MacBook and ended up with the Standard PC keyboard layout. As the keyboard layout of my MacBook has quite some differences, I tried to figure out how to get all the keys I’m used to.

Here’s what I did (following the advices given here):

  • open the file /etc/sysconfig/keyboard and change it (for a german keyboard) as following

    KEYBOARDTYPE="mac"
    KEYTABLE="mac-de-latin1-nodeadkeys"
  • for other layouts than the german one have a look at /lib/kbd/keymaps/mac/all/ and choose one of the keytables listed there