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["Massimo D." <dantoni@xxxxxxxx>]

I have had the same problem with the Italian Apple keyboard connected to a Macbook laptop: "|\" key (above Tab) swapped with "<>" (right of shift).
This is solved in gnome by switching on "Swap keycodes of two keys when Mac keyboards are misdetected by kernel", but in that case it is the keyboard on the laptop that does not work correctly. Is there a way to avoid switching the option on and off whenever I change from one keyboard to the other?

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Apple USB ISO keyboard has incorrectly swapped keys
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214786
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Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in Source Package "linux" in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
Since upgrading kernel to version 2.6.24-12.22 two keys are now swapped on my Apple USB aluminium keyboard with danish layout. Now the keys "<" and "½" are swapped and no longer matches the actual print on the keycaps.

The error is isolated to the following commit: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-hardy.git;a=commitdiff;h=efb3031b446d441dca5b10619503ac0bba7f9748

This commit introduced a key swapping for all "ISO" type Apple keyboards. In my case this swapping is incorrect, and generally it seems like a very bad idea to perform hard coded locale specific key mapping in kernel space as this is also done several places in user space.

The included patch reverts the behavior to the default that matches the keycap printing.