Hello,
I just buy a refurbished macbook 12" A1534. The macbook part works of course OK. Specially, with Ventura I was able to part the disk in two partition and go to install openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE.
This went very well (swap, root and home partitions). Right now I’m blocked by a stupid problem: I can’t get the “@” anywhere.
On a mac, the @ is on the upper left part of the keyboard.
I see three Apple keyboard on Kde config, none gives @, but < instead.
Any thread I find on keyboard/mac subject is old, sometimes very old.
Any hint?
thanks
jdd
NB: of course this is typed with my main openSUSE computer, not on the mac 
Just a guess, try "Generic 104-key PC” in KDE’s setting.
sorry, no joy. But continuing the tests I noticed that the right option key acts like the usual alt gr, that is gives other letters. With Apple iso, at least.
Specially ` gives @ and £ gives # and these where the most missed letters
thanks
jdd
I’ve run linux on various Macs over the years. In the installer there is an option in selecting the keyboard for “English (Macintosh)” which has to be scrolled down to to select. Not sure how that would work retroactively in KDE, or if it is non-English . . . but that might help find the @?? See how I could type the @ in my '12 Mac Pro running TW?? @@@ . . . I did it again . . . stop, Dave, stop with the @@@@@ing. : - )))
Other thought, maybe a keyboard problem was why the previous owner sold it or gave it away?? Could try to clean it or replace it??
Last, unsolicited thought . . . when I have my laptops at home I have them on a stack of stuff and then I plug an external keyboard in to type when I am writing . . . . So possibly you could try that and see if that brings @ back into play . . . .
OR, perhaps check the font library for a missing @ . . . ???
sure, but the interest of this computer is the actual size that allows easy transportation… not with an external keyboard 
wonder why there is no correct keyboard map
or may be a way to change it (but in last resort)
thanks
jdd
Alrighty . . . the purpose of trying to ext keyboard in this case was for testing purposes, to see if that would bring the @ back into play, or not.
If it did, then “we” might assume the laptop’s keyboard was the problem, and that might need to be cleaned or replaced.
If it didn’t then it could be Font library issue??
I do have a KDE install on my laptop which I could check, but right now I’m in Sid/LXQT and LXQT is a stack of sorts on PLasma, in there >Preferences >LXQT Settings >Keyboard & Mouse >Keyboard layout my desktop is using 105 key generic . . . but there is a drop down menu with every manufacturers keyboards listed to choose from . . . . Don’t know whether you would have to just choose one or choose it and then log out for it to take effect??
yep, the keyboard works fine in mac os (including @ key). But in openSUSE Tumbleweed/kde plasma some keys do not give the expected letter.
There are three or four “Apple keyboard” in the list (ansi, iso…), but none gives @, for example, when this letter seems to be standard on every mac keyboard (including usb one). It’s where PC keyboard have ² ~, the most upper left key on the left of 1/&.
Dunno why this key gives < on Tumbleweed?
thanks
jdd
Hmm . . . well that would point to a problem in TW?? On my matia clone of apple keyboard @ is the third key from the top left, over the 2 key . . . .
There is apparently a way to reprogram every key in the keyboard, but I wouldn’t know how to do it . . . .
Might be a font problem??? Some corruption in the font library?
So, the cool thing about TW is that it is constantly changing, and perhaps if you run a few zypper dup’s it may find the problem and fix it?
Or, run a fresh install, and pay close attention to the keyboard option you pick??? Often times nuke n pave will be the Ultimate Solution to a problem.
The used locale/language may also play a role as there are over 80 Mac keyboard layouts. Even in only one of the “main” layouts (ISO) the @ key is everytime at another location for different languages. See alone the (sparse) Apple documentation about it…
Possible that there is a mapping bug for your keyboard language. Only guessing…
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