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So I got this really weird thing on MacOS ... I was a Windows user since like windows 3.0. With ISO German Keyboards. I never had to retrain my muscle memory t
by tomw1808 2y ago
So I got this really weird thing on MacOS ...
I was a Windows user since like windows 3.0. With ISO German Keyboards. I never had to retrain my muscle memory to anything else, until I decided its time to buy a Macbook about 1.5 years ago.
Since then I'm struggling with Karabiner to get the key mappings right.
And its not just command -> control to map cmd+c to ctrl+c for copy etc.
It's also weird things like the ^ or the <> not being mapped on the right part of the keyboard. This is especially apparent (sometimes?) when I use an external keyboard (e.g. the sharkoon purewriter, but not limited to). It's a really weird issue, because on the internal mac keyboard its mapped correctly, while on the external one its not. Then I go into karabiner, select the external keyboard and remap _just for the external keyboard_ the few keys are not mapped correctly. And then weeks go by, it works, and suddenly the keyboard keys are correct without the mapping and the remapping now is the problem, so I delete them.
It's not bothering enough to write an issue on karabiner. Heck, I'm even convinced its not even a karabiner issue, its something else. But I'm not deep enough into the mac system to understand where I should even look, if its even possible.
If someone is using houmain to remap keys, can you maybe share a config that would map MacOS keys back Windows for someone who has a deep ingrained windows-style muscle memory? I just briefly looked through the docs, not sure if I missed it, but can houmain just remap keys for certain keyboards, but leave others unmapped?
- chrisldgk 2y agoThat’s funny - fellow German here, also using macOS with ISO DE keyboards and running into the exact same issue with Karabiner elements. Sometimes keyboard work out of the box, sometimes I need to swap < and ^, sometimes the keys are swapped on the internal keyboard even though I’ve only applied the key swaps for specific devices. So far I haven’t really cared enough to figure out what the problem is and just remap whatever’s wrong in Karabiner directly, but I would also like to know how to fix that.
- tomw1808 2y agoAnd I thought I have the only bad apple... . . . sry, I see myself out.