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Does macOS not allow you to have multiple keyboard layouts and switch between them with a shortcut? On Linux I use fcitx to cycle through half a dozen keyboard
by yorwba 4y ago
Does macOS not allow you to have multiple keyboard layouts and switch between them with a shortcut?
On Linux I use fcitx to cycle through half a dozen keyboard layouts depending on which language I want to type in.
- Macha 4y agoParticularly for British/Irish keyboard layouts, macOS tends to misbehave and decide that the keyboard is ANSI (it isn't) and that there is a layout for "British - PC" that fits that is just the US mac layout (I guess it's just the default in macOS), so I like to touch that option in macos as little as possible because it does the wrong thing 7 times out of 10.
- throwaway67743 4y agoI briefly considered and discounted a Mac based on keyboard , do they allow remapping now? The physical layout is still trash but remapping may help. To clarify, it's not just apple - this trend of putting left slash above enter (ANSI) needs to stop, unofficial iso is just so much better.
- Macha 4y agoThere's no UI tool to remap individual keys, no. It has supported installing custom keyboard layouts for a decade though. e.g. this one attempts to workaround mac os insisting you have an ANSI keyboard by installing a layout that makes mac os do the right thing when it's in that bad state: http://liyang.hu/osx-british.xhtml http://liyang.hu/osx-british.xhtml (Updated for Sierra: https://github.com/cbaggers/backup-uk-keyboard-layouts-for-macos https://github.com/cbaggers/backup-uk-keyboard-layouts-for-m...)
- throwaway67743 4y agoIt feels a little ridiculous having to hack around stupid design decisions for keyboards tbh