Unable to Remap Greater-Than and Less-Than Keys on ThinkPad T14 with German (Macintosh) Layout in Ubuntu

[tarasowski]

I’m encountering a strange issue that I can’t seem to resolve, and I’m hoping someone can help me. I’m using a ThinkPad T14 with a US keyboard layout on Ubuntu. I’ve configured the German (Macintosh) layout, but I’m missing the greater-than (>) and less-than (<) keys that usually appear on the "view layout."

I’ve tried remapping other keys to the greater-than and less-than keys, but when I do, I get semicolon (;) and colon (:) instead. Is there a way to remap any other key to these greater-than and less-than symbols, or perhaps use macros to achieve this?

[lobre]

Hey, can you please post a quick reproduction of a configuration that reflects the problem you have? This can help to see the problem in practice. Thanks a lot!

[tarasowski]

Hi Loric,

here is my default.conf:

[ids]

*

[main]


capslock = overload(control, esc)
esc = capslock
leftmeta = rightalt
leftalt = leftcontrol
rightalt = leftcontrol
sysrq = rightalt

a = >
b = <

after running sudo keyd reload when I type a, I get ; and when I type b I get :
So I'm not getting greater or lower as it supposed to be.

Thank you very much!

[lobre]

Thanks!

I’ve configured the German (Macintosh) layout

What do you mean by that? The layout at the os level?

[tarasowski]

Yes exactly the layout at the os level, on my thinkpad the physical keyboard is US.
This is how I fixed it, but I'm wondering if something like this would work in keyd

sudo vi /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/de

# find this section
xkb_symbols "mac" {
    ...
   # add this at the end
   key <TLDE> { [ less, greater ] };
};


# run the command
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xkb-data

# log out and log in again