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Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10 on my MacBook Pro

I've been using Ubuntu on my mac for a while and everything pretty much works without any cofiguration on Intrepid, but there were a couple of annoying problems that I had to sort out.

# and € keys on UK macintosh keyboard layout

Hash and euro didn't work which can be a pain, so I've mapped them to the key left of the Z key (marked ~`)

You probably should create a new keyboard layout but I just added the new key mapping to the existing gb symbols file.

Open it with:

sudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gb

Scroll down to the United Kingdom - Macintosh bit at the bottom and replace the two lines underneath with:
�� key {�� [�� 2,�� at�� ]�� };
�� key {�� [�� 3,�� sterling�� ]�� };
�� key {�� [�� numbersign,�� EuroSign�� ]�� };

and log out for it to take effect.

Touchpad scrolling and double tap right-click
To get the touchpad working properly on Intrepid I had to configure HAL.

Edit a new .fdi file for it:

gedit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/synaptics.fdi

then paste this into it and save:

�
�
�� true
�� true
�� true
�� false
�� false
�� 1
�� 3
�
�

You need to restart hal for it to take effect and probably log out and in again

sudo /etc/init.d/hal restart

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