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> IMHO this should be default when you choose the Macbook model and
German layout (which should be automatically detected)

Apparently, currently not only the keyboard is not being detected but it
is also completely wrong. Try System -> Einstellungen -> Tastatur,
choose "MacBook/MacBook Pro (Intl)" + "Germany Macintosh" and choose
"Print Layout Diagram". I get a DESKTOP KEYBOARD DIAGRAM! Now I stop
wondering why there is so much wrong with Ubuntu and this keyboard!

Can anyone tell the developer about this? Seems to me he doesn't really
read what we are discussing here.

I will attach the diagram that Ubuntu produces. Additionally, once more,
here is what the keyboard really looks like:
http://www.praezisionoptoelektronik.de/upload/Tastatur/Apple15/Apple15b.jpg.

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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?).