Can't type brackets and Euro sign in Portuguese mac keyboard

[MagmaRules]

In the Portuguese mac keyboard I am unable to type brackets, curly brackets and Euro sign.

When pressing the following keys I should get the correct character:

• alt + 8 = [
• alt + 9 = ]
• alt + shift + 8 = {
• alt + shift + 9 = }
• alt + 3 = Euro
• alt + 2 = @

Running native windows 10 and from master branch.

I got the keyboard to work by using the layout provided here: https://www.outsystems.com/forums/discussion/15527/portuguese-keyboard-layout-for-windows-vm-running-on-a-mac/

Tried doing the mappings in autohotkey but nothing happens. Seems like alt is not working as expected.

Also added a fix in autohotkey: «::< »::>

[rbreaves]

Hmmm I’ll have to dig into that a bit later. I was hoping you’d say on the Linux side so I could point you to another thread but autohotkey is different. Not really aware of it manipulating AltGr or any compose key option but I also just use English.

I pretty well do remaps system wide then fix the rest w/ surgical like precision.. I don’t make Key remaps I don’t think are necessary. :/ But yea I’ve not tested against other languages.

[MagmaRules]

When kinto is active the capture script seems to register my alt + 8 as 'ctrl + alt'. I disable kinto and I can add my mappings correctly. Why is the alt registering differently when kinto is running? Can I just disable that change?

[rbreaves]

It shouldn’t register Alt as Alt+Ctrl as the readme clearly lays out it remaps Alt as Ctrl on standard Windows based keyboards.

Win key becomes Alt in that case so please use that key & report back.

If nothing else you could disable the remapping of keys on the right side too by commenting out the remapping of Ctrl, Alt, Win on the right side of you wanted. Trying to recall if that’s an option during install, it was on the Linux side until I relocated it tweaks. I’ve not yet created a tweaks panel for Windows.

[MagmaRules]

Couldn't get it to work so my temporary solution was to disable kinto, use sharpkeys to switch ctrl and Win key and add some custom mappings in autohotkey for Osx shortcuts (end of line, next/prev word, etc...) and keys that were missing for the brackets, € and @. For now this allows me to code and has most of what I expect for my development work on this machine. Will get back to test kinto when I have more time.

[thalheimrob]

In the Portuguese mac keyboard I am unable to type brackets, curly brackets and Euro sign.

When pressing the following keys I should get the correct character:

* alt + 8 = [

* alt + 9 = ]

* alt + shift + 8 = {

* alt + shift + 9 = }

* alt + 3 = Euro

* alt + 2 = @

Running native windows 10 and from master branch.

I got the keyboard to work by using the layout provided here: https://www.outsystems.com/forums/discussion/15527/portuguese-keyboard-layout-for-windows-vm-running-on-a-mac/

Tried doing the mappings in autohotkey but nothing happens. Seems like alt is not working as expected.

Also added a fix in autohotkey: «::< »::>

same behavior here on linux (pop!OS) with a german macintosh keyboard

[thalheimrob]

Hmmm I’ll have to dig into that a bit later. I was hoping you’d say on the Linux side so I could point you to another thread

kindly ask for the other thread ;)

[RedBearAK]

@Agreborig

same behavior here on linux (pop!OS) with a german macintosh keyboard

In Linux you need to enable the "Alt_Gr on Right Cmd" option in Kinto (or Toshy), and then those characters from ISO Level 3 (the third and fourth layer of characters on the keyboard layout) will only come out if you use the right-side Alt key. Or another key that you've designated to be an Alt_Gr key in your desktop environment's keyboard settings.

And of course, those characters have to actually be available on the keyboard layout, which you can usually check with a layout preview window. But that feature depends on the desktop environment. GNOME and Plasma both have a way to preview the keyboard layout.