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I’ve assigned that to Caps Lock-T, so pressing that will bring up the tool. This may not seem very useful, but these you can then use this new complicated (but easy to press) key combination as a user-defined shortcut for various things.įor example, I use Alfred, and it has a clipboard history/snippet tool.
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Most of these remappings just map Caps Lock plus another key to !! – which, as mentioned above, is Cmd-Ctrl-Option-Shift plus the key.
This works quite well because Caps Lock is on the ‘home row’ so is easy to press with other keys. The rest of the rules set up a Caps Lock mode which means Caps Lock can be used normally if you just tap it by itself, but can also be used as a modifier key to allow it to be used with other keys to trigger shortcuts. In this case, that is !!P which is Cmd-Ctrl-Option-Shift-P – a key combination which is rather unlikely to already be used…! (There is documentation on what these codes like !! means here). Very inconvenient when you want to use the laser pointer to point out something in a video! So, this rule just remaps that keypress (apparently the ‘dictation’ button) to an unused key combination. Unfortunately, when pressing the laser pointer button, it sends some sort of key press as well – and that seems to stop videos playing when presenting a Powerpoint presentation. The final rule is for my Logitech Wireless presenter remote, which connects via a USB dongle and acts as a keyboard. Let’s start from the bottom: the penultimate rule (starting with :des) remaps the non-US-backslash key (which is the top left key directly below Escape on my MBP keyboard) to the key press Option-3, which is what gets the # symbol on my keyboard (I always have to look that up…). Mine is below, and I’ll try and take you through it (I am not an expert at Goku configuration though!). Then you’ll need to write your Goku configuration file, which you should place in ~/.config/karabiner.edn.
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To get going, install Karabiner Elements and then follow these instructions to install Goku, and set up Karabiner Elements properly. The key tool here is Goku which lets you write simple short configuration files which are translated into a complicated Karabiner Elements configuration file.
So, I managed to get this set up in Karabiner Elements – but a couple of years ago I came across a better way to configure it, which enabled me to easily create a load of extra keyboard shortcuts.Ī lot of this post is really just reminding me how I did this – but hopefully it’ll be useful to other people. As I program in Python, being able to easily use # is fairly important! I’m not sure why, but it seems that using a UK keyboard layout on a MBP means that to get # you have to press some weird two-key combination – and I could never remember it.
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I came across Karabiner Elements a number of years ago when trying to find a way to get easy access to the # symbol on my MacBook Pro keyboard. Robin's Blog Karabiner Elements and Goku for custom keyboard shortcuts in MacOS January 11, 2023
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