I installed ubuntu Linux 6.06 as a VM on my new MacBook. Everything works fine so far ( great work Parallels !!! ), but, I can't use the keyboard ( german layout ) completely. All symbols that require the Alt modifier ( backslash, pipe, curly braces, etc. ) are not recognized. And that's really hard, if you try to code ... when I start the xev program I cann see, that the Alt key generates the correct signal ( at least I assume so ). Here's the output : KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001, root 0x3e, subw 0x2600002, time 3431929957, (31,43), root46,604), state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001, root 0x3e, subw 0x2600002, time 3431930042, (31,43), root46,604), state 0x8, keycode 64 (keysym 0xfe0a, ISO_Prev_Group), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: Can anybody help with this ?