I've searched the forums for any other report of this problem, no luck. I used the Package Manager to ensure that my installation was up to date, immediately after installation.
Under 'Control Centre' -> 'Keyboard' -> 'Layouts' I initially tried the keyboard layout 'English (UK) (UK, Macintosh international)', but 'English (UK) English (UK, Macintosh)' does the same. I don't understand the difference between that setting and the separate one for 'Keyboard model' lower down the 'Layouts' panel, which I have set to 'MacBook/MacBook Pro (Intl)' and sometimes 'MacBook/MacBook Pro' - the problem occurs with both of those.
There were no error messages during installation, but when I alter the keyboard model under 'Control Centre' -> 'Keyboard Preferences' -> 'Layouts' with 'Move up' (to get the layout I want at the top of the list) I see a popup error box which contains the text:
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Error activating XKB configuration.
It can happen under various circumstances:
* a bug in the libxklavier library
* a bug in X server (xkbcomp, xmodmap utilities)
* X server with incompatible libxkbfile implementation
X server version data:
The X.org Foundation
11300000
If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
* The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
* The result of mateconftool-2 -R /desktop/mate/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
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_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105", "gb", "mac_intl", ""
_XKB_RULES(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105", "gb", "mac_intl", "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
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model = macbook79
layouts = [gb mac_intl,gb mac]
options = [grp grp:shift_caps_toggle]