How to have a comfortable keyboard layout under X. A guide destinated to italian iBook linux users

Target

have the following keymap: apple keyboard = alt gr

Instructions

You’ve to edit your /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 file. Remember to make a backup copy of this file before editing. These’re the easy steps:

• under X run a program like xev to find the exact keycode of your apple key
• change the code with the new one
• comment all the old command referring the new keycode
  

Restart X and keep your finger crossed ;)