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This didn't work for those of us who map Caps Lock to Control, like god intended. IIRC, it wasn't possible to map the left Control key to ESC for some reason.

geoelectric 6y ago
I actually use Karabiner now to do Ctrl if held, Esc if tapped. It’s a little tougher to walk people through though: 1) install karabiner elements 2) select complex modifications 3) add rule 4) import more from internet 5) import change caps lock key v4 6) add rule change caps_lock to control if pressed with other keys, to escape if pressed alone ...is my actual current setup, along with a bunch of other key mapping. But I started with what I posted above, which everyone with Mojave+ on a MBP has available already.
- rrdharan 6y ago
  Is karabiner going to stop working in 10.16? Because of the kext lockdown/deprecation? I'm very afraid of getting too used to it and then having it stop working. https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/2149 https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/2149
  - geoelectric 6y ago
    I hadn't seen that before, but figures. More and more, a nice Lenovo, Dell, or System76 laptop running Linux is starting to sound really good. Hell, it's got better gaming support than Mac now, with Vulkan. As far as the immediate concern goes, Karabiner is such a popular thing that I suspect there'll be some way to support it. If not, I won't upgrade. I just bought this MacBook Pro, and it'll probably continue to be usable on 10.15.x for its lifetime. I'm not too interested in my gaming keyboard and 10 key pad becoming unusable, at any rate. If they actually completely kill software support for this, I guess next best thing would be a USB intermediary to process the key codes. Possible it's doable with a Raspberry PI or something, and there are enough mechanical keyboard enthusiasts on Mac someone would be motivated to do it. Won't help for the internal keyboard though.
    - Wubdidu 6y ago
      The USB thingy already exists, I actually own one for macros with dumb keyboards. Its a very small USB-device with a USB port where you can attach standard USB keyboards. It runs QMK and essentially acts as a proxy, allowing you to program macros and what-not directly in QMK. A neat, little gadget. See https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=69169.0 https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=69169.0 Edit: Correction: It actually runs TMK, but I flashed QMK on it.
      - geoelectric 6y ago
        Sweet! Thanks for pointing me at that. I have applications where I might be able to use that anyway (PS4 comes to mind).
  - geoelectric 6y ago
    btw, this issue has some "system-supported" ways to do the simple modifications. That at least would let me do a workaround for some of what I'd need to replace (swapping modifier keys, mapping my ten-keypad to arrow keys, etc.) https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/2196 https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/2196
- gumby 6y ago
  Karabiner also lets you disable the Touch Bar escape so you don’t accidentally trigger it.
geoelectric 6y ago
Re left ctrl, btw, it’s possible now to map ctrl to esc. It’ll map both keys though—-the apple interface doesn’t do left/right. It’s a “simple modification” (specific type) in Karabiner though, if you use that. I use PC mechanical keyboards so most of my typing devices a) have swapped around mod keys and b) map right ctrl to fn so I can do Mac device hotkeys from pc keyboard.

geoelectric 6y ago

I actually use Karabiner now to do Ctrl if held, Esc if tapped. It’s a little tougher to walk people through though: 1) install karabiner elements 2) select complex modifications 3) add rule 4) import more from internet 5) import change caps lock key v4 6) add rule change caps_lock to control if pressed with other keys, to escape if pressed alone ...is my actual current setup, along with a bunch of other key mapping. But I started with what I posted above, which everyone with Mojave+ on a MBP has available already.

rrdharan 6y ago
Is karabiner going to stop working in 10.16? Because of the kext lockdown/deprecation? I'm very afraid of getting too used to it and then having it stop working. https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/2149 https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/2149
- geoelectric 6y ago
  I hadn't seen that before, but figures. More and more, a nice Lenovo, Dell, or System76 laptop running Linux is starting to sound really good. Hell, it's got better gaming support than Mac now, with Vulkan. As far as the immediate concern goes, Karabiner is such a popular thing that I suspect there'll be some way to support it. If not, I won't upgrade. I just bought this MacBook Pro, and it'll probably continue to be usable on 10.15.x for its lifetime. I'm not too interested in my gaming keyboard and 10 key pad becoming unusable, at any rate. If they actually completely kill software support for this, I guess next best thing would be a USB intermediary to process the key codes. Possible it's doable with a Raspberry PI or something, and there are enough mechanical keyboard enthusiasts on Mac someone would be motivated to do it. Won't help for the internal keyboard though.
  - Wubdidu 6y ago
    The USB thingy already exists, I actually own one for macros with dumb keyboards. Its a very small USB-device with a USB port where you can attach standard USB keyboards. It runs QMK and essentially acts as a proxy, allowing you to program macros and what-not directly in QMK. A neat, little gadget. See https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=69169.0 https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=69169.0 Edit: Correction: It actually runs TMK, but I flashed QMK on it.
    - geoelectric 6y ago
      Sweet! Thanks for pointing me at that. I have applications where I might be able to use that anyway (PS4 comes to mind).
- geoelectric 6y ago
  btw, this issue has some "system-supported" ways to do the simple modifications. That at least would let me do a workaround for some of what I'd need to replace (swapping modifier keys, mapping my ten-keypad to arrow keys, etc.) https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/2196 https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/2196
gumby 6y ago
Karabiner also lets you disable the Touch Bar escape so you don’t accidentally trigger it.

geoelectric 6y ago

Re left ctrl, btw, it’s possible now to map ctrl to esc. It’ll map both keys though—-the apple interface doesn’t do left/right. It’s a “simple modification” (specific type) in Karabiner though, if you use that. I use PC mechanical keyboards so most of my typing devices a) have swapped around mod keys and b) map right ctrl to fn so I can do Mac device hotkeys from pc keyboard.