Faulty german keyboard on Macbook

Desktop Environments Cinnamon
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I’ve installed EOS 21.4 on my MacBook (Intel, 2015) and I have a faulty keyboard layout. The keys “< >” and “^ °” have mutually changed their positions.
strange was: in a terminal at the installation process these keys were at the correct position.
And strange is also that Manjaro doesn’t have this problem.
However for several reasons I prefer EndeavourOS to Manjaro.
Does someone know how to fix this?
and btw the OS is up to date (i did pacman -Syu)
Hans

2

Could you post the output of

setxkbmap -print -verbose 10

here, please?

3

here is the output as requested:
$ setxkbmap -print -verbose 10
Setting verbose level to 10
locale is C
Trying to load rules file ./rules/evdev…
Trying to load rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev…
Success.
Applied rules from evdev:
rules: evdev
model: pc105
layout: de,de
variant: mac_nodeadkeys,mac
options: grp:shift_caps_toggle
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes: evdev+aliases(qwertz)
types: complete
compat: complete
symbols: pc+de(mac_nodeadkeys)+de(mac):2+inet(evdev)+group(shift_caps_toggle)
geometry: pc(pc105)
xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes { include “evdev+aliases(qwertz)” };
xkb_types { include “complete” };
xkb_compat { include “complete” };
xkb_symbols { include “pc+de(mac_nodeadkeys)+de(mac):2+inet(evdev)+group(shift_caps_toggle)” };
xkb_geometry { include “pc(pc105)” };
};

and here my locale settings:
$ locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=“de_DE.UTF-8”
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=“de_DE.UTF-8”
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=“de_DE.UTF-8”
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Hans

4

I am pretty sure the issue lies with the identification of the keyboard model at installation time.
You can try to experiment with different Apple keyboard models- no idea where to find that in Cinnamon, in Plasma it is Sytsem Settings>Hardware>Input devices>Keyboard>Hardware>Keyboard Model. You should see three different models for Apple laptops there.
In case the Manjaro installation you mentioned is still available on your Mac, look there for comparison.

5

Did you see this section of the Arch Wiki?

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6

thanks for the link; ist was very helpful for me.
now my kbd layout is as it should be.
Hans