imac 24" keyboard mapping

[AlainJLEB]

Hi there,

I'm using Kubuntu 7.10 on an iMac 24", but I'm facing an issue with the keyboard. It is a french azerty keyboard and I can't succeed in displaying symbols characters like pipe, square brackets, ...

The keymap file used is /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh_vndr/fr, which mentions that pipe sign is on the L key:

  key <AC08> {    [     k, K,   Egrave,   Ediaeresis   ]    };
  key <AC09> {    [     l, L,   notsign,      bar   ]    };
  key <AC10> {    [     m, M,     mu,     Oacute   ]    };

But when performing any key combination, no way of having a pipe sign displayed.

The xorg.conf config file contains the following section related to the keyboard:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver   "kbd"
    Option   "CoreKeyboard"
    Option   "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option   "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option   "XkbLayout" "fr"
    Option   "XkbVariant" "mac"
EndSection

Any idea where is the issue? If somebody is using an imac with a french azerty keyboard without problem, please let me know ...

Alain