After playing with Ubuntu among other flavours of Linux in VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro for several years, I figured it was time to build myself a new computer and use Ubuntu 20.04 as main OS.
While any virtualised Ubuntu environment recognises the Apple keyboard perfectly, the layout of the keyboard hooked to my newly built computer -regular Windows keyboard with Dutch(Belgian) Azerty layout- seems impossible to set up.
No matter what Input Source selected, parentheses among several other keys like the @ always seem to be out of place. Familiar keyboard layouts available in 16.04 and 18.04 seem to no longer exist. I'm sure I'm overlooking something.
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- To set AZERTY run
sudo setxkbmap bein a terminal - If the above doesn't set the keyboard properly then try
sudo setxkbmap fr sudo loadkeys xx(xx=be or fr)
Arijit Chatterjee
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As stated in the comments, unlike in previous editions of Ubuntu, first generate a locale before eventually finding the input layout in the settings.
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After a lot of digging I found out that the Belgian (azerty) keyboard for the MacBookPro (the macintosh version) is available under the name: Belgian (alt.)
The default Belgian keyboard is just called: Belgian, for both spoken languages Dutch and French.
Do not look for Dutch as this is the layout for the Netherlands.
It's a variant of the French keyboard but the special characters are placed different in Belgium and France and also on the mac keyboard.
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