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[Ricky Campbell <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx>]

ikus, incase you did not know, 'Insert' should be mapped to the 'help'
key, and 'NumLock' should be mapped to 'clear'. This is, of course, on
the full keyboards... If you are talking about the Macbook keyboards, or
the wireless aluminum, then those keys may not exist there either.

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SysRq key equivalent needed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/262408
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Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
MacBook keyboards and other Apple keyboards lack a SysRq key and therefore lack important kernel functionality that is designed to save catastrophic data loss if the computer freezes.  An equivalent keystroke should be assigned, for example Fn + Eject, to preserve the functionality of the Magic SysRq key in linux on a Mactel.  I believe this is a bug and not a feature request because the current implementation assumes that all keyboards have a SysRq key which is an incorrect assumption and therefore a mistake, or bug.