Czech QWERTZ Macintosh keyboard layout

While using Apple Macintosh for several years, I accustomed to its Czech keyboard which can be used for both programming and proper typography typing. When I started to use Linux as my main desktop platform, I was missing the Czech Mac’s keyboard usability.

Therefore I created this keyboard layout…

Features

This layout is derived from the Czech (QWERTY, Macintosh) keyboard layout present in Ubuntu with a few changes:

• swap Y and Z keys to get a more common Czech keyboard layout
• add \ and | symbols to Q and W keys (with AltGr) as they are difficult to type otherwise on an ANSI keyboard

Installation

Apply cz-mac-qwertz-keyboard.xkb.patch to the /usr/share/X11/xkb folder.

Warning: This patch was created on Ubuntu 22.04 and may not work elsewhere unless modified accordingly.