Karabiner For Mac Os Sierra

21-04-2021 admin

There are many alternatives to Karabiner for Mac if you are looking to replace it. The most popular Mac alternative is BetterTouchTool.It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Hammerspoon or Automator.If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked 37 alternatives to Karabiner and 15 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Karabiner doesn't work at all with Sierra. There's some 'new' project called Karabiner Elements is supposedly half-finished, but yet people keep donating hoping they'll get something usable soon. Not holding my breath and it would be completely new and will likely lack useful features of the abandoned one. I’ve been using Karabiner to remap a PC keyboard to a Mac keyboard. This however only works for El Capitan and earlier. You need to use Karabiner-Elements for Sierra MacOS. I'm running Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.6, and Karabiner Elements version 12.9.0. Efforts thus far to resolve this are as described, I've found and enabled the Tablet in the listed devices for modification, beyond that and some googling, I've run out of ideas.

Update 2017-09-27: Karabiner is back!

I’ve used Karabiner for Mac to embed my arrow keys in a Diamond-style configuration - in other words, j-l-i-k maps to left-right-up-down. This configuration is active when the caps lock key is held. (Note: the Seil utility is specifically required for remapping CAPS. I remapped CAPS to CTRL_R, which is not present on my MBP. Consequently, CTRL_R is technically the modifier key). I’ve similarly embedded BKSP and DEL as the o and p keys and added additional ‘super-modifier’ keys: f to signify ‘word at a time’ (e.g. CAPS-f-j jumps back a word), d to go to beginning/end of line, and s to highlight a selection. Karabiner can also detect the vendor ID associated with a connected keyboard, so it can apply specific remappings to specific keyboards (e.g. the command and option keys can be switched for a PC keyboard while leaving the bindings for the built-in MBP keyboard unaltered). Finally, I’ve been experimenting with using CMD_R as a key for exposing all windows and as a toggle key for switching between spaces using j and l. If you’re curious about implementing any of these features, see my private.xml file here.

I recently updated to macOS Sierra from El Cap, which to my dismay caused Karbiner and Seil to stop working. The author (bless him) is hard at work on a new version called Karabiner-Elements. However, the early release (v0.90.40) does not have a usable GUI interface and only supports basic behavior like switching keys.

Fortunately, macOS features built-in support for altering keybindings by creating a property list (.dict file) in the user library directory. This property list can be written in either XML or the ‘old-ASCII/NeXT’ style (the example below uses the old-style). A complete listing of possible actions is available in the developer documentation for the macOS API.

My workaround uses Karabiner-Elements to do the heavy lifting to remap CAPS to CTRL_R. When either CTRL key is held, a property list specifies the arrow keys as jlik, BKSP as o, and DEL as ;.

Disclaimer: I’ve never taken a class in operating systems.

Install Karabiner-Elements
In Karabiner-Elements, remap CAPS to CTRL_R:
Update: The ‘manual’ actions below are no longer necessary, as recent versions of Karabiner-Elements (~v90.48, noted 2016-10-10) now facilitate simple key swaps via the GUI. Note that Karabiner-Elements will automatically create/modify the karabiner.json config file; since this config file has slight changes in format, it may be in conflict with manually created ones.
In terminal:
Into the text editor that opens, paste and save:
In the user library, create a keybinding property list:
In terminal:
Into the TextEdit window that opens, paste and save:

Note: Before these changes take effect in a given application, the application must be restarted. A full computer restart is ideal.

The resulting mapping is far less powerful - it lacks ‘super-modifier’ keys, keyboard vendor ID detection, and the ability to discern left and right CTRL/OPT keys. However, it should be an effective stopgap until Karabiner-Elements reaches maturity. Likewise, I’m only scratching the surface - I’m sure these missing features are possible (and probably easy) to implement, and, without delving into source code, I’d suspect Karabiner itself interacts with macOS in a similar manner, albeit with a C-based API.

Updates:

Unfortunately, these keybindings do not appear to override application-specific keybindings (e.g. in Terminal, Sublime).
A similar CAPS to CTRL remapping can be performed natively without Karabiner-Elements (i.e. without Steps 1,2 above) by going to System Preferences > Keyboard::Keyboard > Modifier Keys.... Unlike Karabiner-Elements, this approach cannot distinguish between left and right modifier keys.

See also:
Customizing the Cocoa Text System
How to Create Keyboard Layout and Keybinding
KeyBindingsEditor
Mac OS X Key Bindings

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