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I installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my Macbook Pro yesterday and today I noticed that the key right below ESC isn't correct. Where it should produce ` and ~ (which it does under OS X), it produces < and >. I haven't tested the whole keyboard, so I don't know if there are others. Is there a way to fix that without reinstalling Ubuntu?

RadlyEel
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  • You probably just have the wrong keyboard layout selected. Go to System Settings -> Text Entry and see what input sources are there. Click the plus sign to add an input method, if necessary. – wjandrea Oct 21 '16 at 18:46
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    Possible duplicate of [Tilde key on Mac Air with Ubuntu](https://askubuntu.com/questions/530325/tilde-key-on-mac-air-with-ubuntu) – Fabby Jun 30 '18 at 20:02

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On Ubuntu 16.04 with a Mac keyboard you should be able to get a tilde symbol by pressing Right Alt + ] key.

waltinator
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masitko
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Here's the fix that worked for my MacBookPro 12,1 (Retina) on Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "xenial" running kernel 4.8.0-51 generic

Back up before editing:

nano /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc

Comment out

key <LSGT> {    [ less, greater, bar, brokenbar ] };

and add

key <LSGT> { [ grave, asciitilde, grave, asciitilde ] };

Apply the change

rm -rf /var/lib/xkb/*

Logout/login.

Thanks to Timofey (source here)

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