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Macbook 2,1 Alt Gr key on Kubuntu 9.10 rc

October 27, 2009

I’ve spent a lot of time looking for a solution to enable the Alt-gr key in my Macbook 2,1 and here it is the magic line:
sudo sed -i~ ‘/xkb_symbols “ralt_switch” {/a  include “level3(rwin_switch)”‘ /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/level3
This makes the right Apple key to work as Alt Gr.I found it here.

Google Chrome for Linux (quick review)

June 6, 2009

Last Friday, 5th June, I saw on slashdot the following post: Google Announces Chrome For Mac and Linux Dev Builds. The announcement said something that immediately caught my attention and made me wanna try it:
DON’T DOWNLOAD THEM! Unless of course you are
a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete,
unpredictable, and potentially crashing software.
So, I downloaded the ubuntu package from their dev channel and after a while trying it I found it very satisfactory.
From the things that doesn’t work yet the [...]