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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 261573 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/261573

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 261573
   Intrepid: No "AltGr" key defined -> e.g. no "@" symbol with MacBook Pro

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german macintosh keyboard layout uses alt-gr as standard modifier
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/86034
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Status in “xkeyboard-config” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Note: I'm currently running in Parallels. This could be an artifact of virtualisation, but I don't actually believe it is.

On a German Keyboard, alternative keys (such as @, €) are accessed via ALT+letter (e.g. ALT-L, ALT-E correspondingly).
In Ubuntu, these keys are instead accessed with ALT-GR+letter (i.e. the right ALT key, not the left one).

This bug might be a result of Ubuntu using the ALT key as a menu key (i.e. ALT-E opens edit menu).
If this is the case, I ask you to consider remapping the menu key to CMD. (i.e. ALT-E -> €, CMD-E Edit menu).

In case this bug doesn't get resolved, please followup with a solution I can apply myself.