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Mac mini + External PC keyboard -> Unable to get ISO physical layout
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<blockquote data-quote="ziphnor" data-source="post: 1919404" data-attributes="member: 414928"><p>I am trying to connect a PC keyboard of the following type to my Mac mini:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]36998[/ATTACH]</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard/swedish-finnish-topre-realforce-105ub-gold-on-black-keyboard.asp[/URL]</p><p></p><p>As you can see its an ISO keyboard and is mean to be used for swedish/finnish(but also works fine for danish which is what I am using it for). Looking at a real ISO apple keyboard, the layout looks similar:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]36999[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>When I connect the PC keyboard shown at the top,<s> the Mac mini is failing its automatic keyboard detection, so I skipped it and selected ISO manually.</s> Update: After following a tip to delete a certain plist file and reboot it now gets detected as ISO, but still doesn't show as it:</p><p></p><p>However, when I go to Keyboard->Input Sources, I see this:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]37000[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>That is an ANSI keyboard( not the long left shift and the slim enter key. In the virtual keyboard, when I use the >/< button to the left of the shirt it writes '$' but does not indicate a key press on the virtual keyboard.</p><p></p><p>How can I fix this and force it into ISO mode? That would immediatly fix the position of >/< and @ for example.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Details on Mac:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]37002[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ziphnor, post: 1919404, member: 414928"] I am trying to connect a PC keyboard of the following type to my Mac mini: [ATTACH type="full" alt="1664812913290.png"]36998[/ATTACH] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard/swedish-finnish-topre-realforce-105ub-gold-on-black-keyboard.asp[/URL] As you can see its an ISO keyboard and is mean to be used for swedish/finnish(but also works fine for danish which is what I am using it for). Looking at a real ISO apple keyboard, the layout looks similar: [ATTACH type="full" alt="1664812933501.png"]36999[/ATTACH] When I connect the PC keyboard shown at the top,[S] the Mac mini is failing its automatic keyboard detection, so I skipped it and selected ISO manually.[/S] Update: After following a tip to delete a certain plist file and reboot it now gets detected as ISO, but still doesn't show as it: However, when I go to Keyboard->Input Sources, I see this: [ATTACH type="full" alt="1664812998140.png"]37000[/ATTACH] That is an ANSI keyboard( not the long left shift and the slim enter key. In the virtual keyboard, when I use the >/< button to the left of the shirt it writes '$' but does not indicate a key press on the virtual keyboard. How can I fix this and force it into ISO mode? That would immediatly fix the position of >/< and @ for example. EDIT: Details on Mac: [ATTACH type="full" alt="1664813363314.png"]37002[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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