How to use a french MacBook Pro keyboard with Ubuntu?

Question

I have a MacBook Pro 13' (mid-2009) with and french keyboard layout and I want to use this keyboard on Ubuntu 14.04 in the same way as on Mac OSX Mavericks .

For example, when I hit the key "@", another character is printed on the screen.

Does anyone have the solution ?

Answer 1

This solution worked for me :

• In Paramètres système or System Settings , click on Saisie de texte or Text Entry .
• Sources d'entrée à utiliser or Input sources to use has to be Français or French (and not Français (Apple) , Français (Macintosh) , French (Apple) , French (Macintosh) or anything else.
• Modify the file /etc/default/keyboard to have :
  • XKBMODEL="macintosh"
  • XKBLAYOUT="fr"
  • XKBVARIANT=""
  • XKBOPTIONS=""

All the others lines of this file have to be blank or should be commented (this first column should contain # ).

• Log in / log out or reboot
• That's all !