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Support for Aluminium Keyboards packaged, code-named apple-kbd

After many episodes, the support for Apple Aluminium Keyboards is finally becoming user-friendly. All major distribs now ship a recent version of xkeyboard-config, so there is no need to mess with XKB patches anymore... To complete the user experience, I'm happy to introduce you apple-kbd, the collection of helpful goodies …

Apple Aluminium Keyboards with udev, Xorg server 1.9

It's been a year now since I published my support for Aluminium Keyboards. Since then, my XKB patches have been accepted in XKeyboardConfig 1.9, with a few modifications: The multimedia keys can always be accessed by combining Fxx with the 3rd level chooser (this was option alul3media in my …

Aluminium Keyboard support under X11: all models, all OSes

I finally found the time to update my previous support for Aluminium Keyboard under Xorg, and take it to the Next Level (tm). The overall support is now much more polished. For you this means several things: I've implemented the XKB geometries of all variants of the long Aluminium Keyboard …

Make your Apple Aluminium Keyboard really work under Linux, X.org

Like many others, I've bought an Aluminium Keyboard for its cool style the smooth typing experience it provides. Mine is a wired version, ISO variant (international, 110-keys). It's not working 100% out-of-the-box under Linux, so this post explains what I did to make it happen: Supporting the additional keys (F13 …

Toolchain.sh is amazing!

A few weeks ago, I finally upgraded my iPhone to firwmare 2.2.1. It was actually an utterly painless operation, thanks to the amazing toolchain.sh by the guys from iphonedevlinux. I remember in the 1.1.4 days, I had a hard time extracting the MacOS 10.5 …