I thought that I could copy permanently these into KM clipboards so that I can paste them with a single Trigger whenever I need to - thereby not having to enter the extra keystrokes to invoke the OS' Emoji and Symbols palette/popup. In particular, I do often type diacritics, top-bit set characters such as £ and ♭. I do keep an ultra-clean machine, so am nervous about the kind of conditions you ran into Tom - especially apparently random, or 'timed misbehaviour'Īll I need to do, really, is have a good 20/two dozen or so keys/key combinations which are unused in any other application for use as KM Triggers. And others mention it here as a bit of a standard tool. I have seen Karabiner used - apparently quite successfully - in the MacSparky videos on KM as a way to free up additional combinations. So, if you run into any issues, it’s not an issue to get rid of for your suggestions. In any case, the good thing is that Karabiner (at least pre-Elements) comes with a working uninstaller. I’ll give it again a try, somewhere in the future.Īlso the majority of people seem to have no issues at all.

Another one was a weird issue with window scrolling that only appeared after at least 30 minus or so after reboot.

The first one was a conflict it produced with key repeat.But I always had to remove it because of issues that were definitely related to Karabiner: In the last decade I had installed Karabiner a couple of times. Not really safety-related, but probably related to the fact that it works on pretty low level:

Years ago I’ve written my custom layout with Ukelele, which I’m still using today (with some minor modifications from time to time). It has a bit of a learning curve but it comes with an excellent tutorial and manual, which also covers all macOS keyboard-layout basics. When it’s only about key mapping (regular keys and dead keys, not modifier keys), Ukelele is the way to go. You can create your own custom keyboard layouts with Ukelele.

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