In this tutorial, I will show you how to remap your keyboard in OSX. We’ll be using software called Karabiner (formerly KeyRemap4MacBook), which is very powerful and 100% free.
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Before remapping your keyboard via software, check to see if your keyboard has a DIP switch setting for the key(s) you want to remap. Hardware remapping is preferable to software when possible, because any changes you make will work with ALL devices, not just the computer on which you’ve installed remapping software.
Basic Remapping
Advanced Remapping
So, you want to perform a remap that you can’t find in Karabiner’s pre-configured list. No problem — you just need to edit your private.xml. If you don’t already have a code editor that handles XML, download and install Adobe Brackets, a free and open source code editor.
This code will be your template for creating custom remaps. Each remap goes inside its own item tag, with a name and identifier of your choice (private._________________). Then, use __KeyToKey__ or –KeyToConsumer– (for media keys) inside autogen tags to reassign keys as shown.
To find the necessary KeyCodes, you can either use Karabiner’s EventViewer or the lists linked below. Use the English language codes in private.xml, not the hex codes.
You can copy and adapt these two examples to most remapping you will need to do. In the event you need to remap in a way that these examples don’t cover, such as remapping a key to multiple other keys, consult Karabiner’s extensive technical documentation.
Note that when a single key is involved in more than one remap, you must consolidate all the relevant autogens inside a single item tag or the XML file will not be parsed correctly.
As I noted at the beginning of this post, you’ll need to install and use Seil if you want to remap caps lock. See here for instructions for remapping caps lock with Seil..
Did you successfully remap your keyboard using this tutorial? Leave a comment and let me know. If you’re struggling, leave a comment and I’ll help you out. 🙂
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Download Karabiner-Elements-12.9.0
The current release works on the following macOS:
Step 1
Open a downloaded dmg file, and then open a pkg file in dmg.
Step 2
Installer is launched. Install Karabiner-Elements.
Karabiner-Elements will be installed into /Applications folder.
Step 3
Launch Karabiner-Elements from Launchpad. Learn more Comments are closed.
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