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[Ricky Campbell <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx>]

For the part about it working "out of the box"... Just for informational
purposes.. There have been arguments against the sort of thing you
suggest as well. For instance. There is no Num Lock key on Apple
keyboards, but the Clear Key (which is in he same location on the Full
Keyboards) is mapped to NumLock instead. Apple keyboards also do not
have arrow keys on the numpads, so it is strange to the user when they
work as arrow keys, then there is no key marked to switch that function.
Point being, If the key doesn't exist on the keyboard already, you have
to be careful changing the marked function of keys already on the
keyboard. Otherwise I agree that the small enter key would be a good
choice for conversion to AltGr.

So how does it function in OSX? How would to get the @? Maybe that would
be a good choice to mimick...

Also, from what I read above, you only talked about the Compose Key
Options... There are other options as well. The third level chooser
options should allow you to set an existing key to do what you want.

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Intrepid: No "AltGr" key defined -> e.g. no "@" symbol with MacBook Pro
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/261573
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Status in Hotkeys: Invalid
Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in central project for keyboard configuration: Confirmed
Status in “xkeyboard-config” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Binary package hint: pommed

Testing with Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 4. Manually changed System -> Preferences -> Keyboard to "Apple: MacBook / MacBook Pro (Intel)", but no change. Apparently Ubuntu does not know what to do with the key second right to the space key (the key right next to the space key is the "Apple" key which also is right left to the space key) which should probably do the job of the AltGr key.

Fn - ctrl - alt - Apple key - SPACE - Apple key - strange key which probably should do the job of AltGr - < key etc.

Note that normally on modern Macs you get the "@" symbol pressing some key + the letter "l" key. At the moment, with Ubuntu, things work neither the Mac way nor the usual PC way. (I suppose it would be useful to use the PC way.)

This goes for a German keyboard tested. I assume it's the same with other languages' keyboards (English keyboards have th "@" on "q", too, right?).