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[Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think making left alt do shortcuts and third level would be
intuitive at all. For people with Apple hardware that have never used
OSX, using left alt for altgr would be confusing (I've used MacBooks
with OSX quite a bit and didn't know about that).  I'd make the spare
Enter key (blank-ish on intl versions) be altgr. No need for two and
for intl its unclear what it's purpose is anyway.

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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?).