Comments on: Using Apple Keyboard in Linux (Fedora)

By: Ankur Shrivastava

Ankur Shrivastava — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:01:16 +0000

@Henrik no man no idea about that, i have the old one and this works well, will look into it

@Anup happy to be of some help

By: Anup

Anup — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:51:11 +0000

You Beauty!

Thanks for posting this up – it really helped me out.

By: Henrik Heqvist

Henrik Heqvist — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:30:19 +0000

Thanks for the help! Was looking for a solution for that.
Just got mine two days ago. But i cant seem to make it work 100% correctly.

I have the version without the numeric pad and i can’t seem to get the left alt button working. Instead that functionality is bound to the right alt button. Which is a bit of a hassle

Any clue on how to fix that?

By: Ankur Shrivastava

Ankur Shrivastava — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:39:54 +0000

@Michael
hehe it happens

@Peter
thanks for the info, have update the post

By: Peter Hartley

Peter Hartley — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:11:45 +0000

Thanks for this! In recent kernels it seems to have moved to /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/fnmode, but it was your post that put me on the right track…

By: Michael Bova

Michael Bova — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:09:31 +0000

And I just noticed that you were talking about fedora, not os x. Woops.

By: Michael Bova

Michael Bova — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:34:49 +0000

You could also go into System Preferences >> Keyboard & Mouse and uncheck the box for “Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys.”

The wording of that setting is a bit unintuitive in my opinion but this will accomplish what you’re looking for, if I’m understanding you correctly.

By: Ankur Shrivastava

Ankur Shrivastava — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:44:50 +0000

@all
GLad to be of some help

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:36:59 +0000

Awesome, thank you!! I was swearing everytime I had to hit function keys. Muscle memory is a hard thing to unlearn

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:00:50 +0000

I’ve been wishing I had this set up correctly for months. Glad I googled again!

Thanks

By: Peter Lemenkov

Peter Lemenkov — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:17:29 +0000

Thanks for this tip!