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[lubuntu] Macbook Air 11" Alt key

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Hoping someone can help me with a relatively straightforward solution to a niggling problem

After installing Ubuntu 16.04 on my 2013 Macbook Air I find I'm unable to switch to virtual terminals. After a bit of digging I find this is because the left alt key is 'incorrectly' bound to Level_3_Shift

Code:

KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,
    root 0xd6, subw 0x0, time 1930533, (-435,387), root:(362,439),
    state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

I managed to change this for a single X session but ended up trapped in tty1 since (I assume) as soon as I was out of X11 the keybinding switched back to Level_3_Shift. And since it wasn't run as a startup command the configuration was lost as soon as I logged out.

I've done a bit of digging around but all the solutions to change both virtual terminal and X11 keybindings seem incredibly fiddly given this is Ubuntu and I just want to change a single key.

Is there any simple way of doing this or am I just going to have to get my hands dirty?

Cheers

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