
The way this swaps keymaps, it fixes my external keyboard but also makes the same change to the MacBook’s internal keyboard, making that one wrong. Hidutil property -set ' * ) echo "Usage: $0 on|off|install|uninstall" >&2 #!/bin/sh # Adapted from under CC BY 4.0 set -e PLIST = "/Library/LaunchDaemons/" case $1 in I found some scripts on the Apple Stack Exchange and rewrote them into a shell utility to make it easier to use. Forunately, there’s a CLI for changing user keymappings on MacOS, hidutil. No matter how many times I go through the setup, Karabiner Elements always fails to install its driver on this machine. Until recently I solved this by remapping the offending keys using Karabiner Elements.įast-forward a few years and I’ve got a newer MacBook Pro, circa 2019. The Mac’s default behaviour is to swap the section mark and plus-minus (§, ±) keys with the backtick/tilde key. It thinks it’s ANSI layout (no extra key left of ‘z’) but it’s actually ISO layout (backtick/tidle left of z). Unfortunately, MacOS has never correctly detected the layout of this keyboard. I solved this by buying a Mac-compatible mechanical keyboard from Varmilo. Fixing Swapped Tilde Key on MacOS | Ian Gilham Ian Gilham Home About Archive Feed Fixing Swapped Tilde Key on MacOSįor the last few years I’ve been using an early 2015 MacBook Pro for work and have sometimes suffered from RSI due in part to the terrible ergonomics of the Magic Keyboard.
