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When you change the Input Menu to a supported keyboard layout, additional key mappings are appended to the key mapping list. Fusion supports U.K. English, Belgian, Danish, French, Swiss French, and German. This feature is not available for Mac OS X Server virtual machines. Change the key mapping settings. Go to the system preferences, open keyboard preferences, and change which actions are set for the option and command keys to remap your modifier keys. In order to make things easier, we created a video to show you step-by-step how to set these keys up in the Apple layout. The long-discontinued Acer Aspire keyboard in the above photo has been used with my Macs since I acquired it in 1999, back in the Classic Mac OS Days, and it worked well with the free version of USB Overdrive using the Classic Mac OS. Mac OS X 10.0-10.3.9. By some time in 2004, I was using the free uControl system preference that let me. Question: Q: mapping eject key on Non-Mac keyboard. I've gotten a new USB keyboard for my Mac. It is a Windows keyboard, but after remapping the Alt and Windows keys, it works just like a Mac keyboard. Mac OS X keyboard mapping A VNC Viewer user should be able to press any key or key combination and have the expected result manifest itself seamlessly on the computer running VNC Server. If you are connecting to a Mac from a Windows or Linux PC, or vice versa, the two computers are likely to have different keyboards.

Here's a guide of keyboard shortcut and automations tools for the Mac.

I created aDvorak Keyboard Layoutusing ResEdit on Mac back in 1992, and been using QuicKeys back then, it was the best automation tool. Also many app launchers and keyboard tools over the decades that came and went.On this page, i only list the latest ones that's still available.

Swap Modifiers

Karabiner-Elements

Karabiner-Elements (was known as KeyRemap4MacBook) lets you do advanced key remapping.

Download at[Karabiner-Elements At https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/ ]

Karabiner is very advanced. You can:

  • Distinguish left Ctrl vs right Ctrl, remap Escape, remap Enter key.
  • Set Space bar to be Ctrl or ⌘command when held down with another key, but as space itself when no other keys is pressed at the same time.
  • Set keys to be device dependent. i.e. You have 2 keyboard. You want F2 to do different things.

Change Keyboard Shortcut in App

Mac OS X since 10.4 (year 2005) lets you change keyboard shortcut in a specific app. Cheapest mac for ios development.

Go to System Preferences, Keyboard and Mouse, Keyboard Shortcuts. Then click the + sign add button.

Note: This mechanism is not very flexible, because:

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  • Once you create a hotkey, the original key won't work anymore. (for example, if you set F3 to Copy, then ⌘command+c won't work.)
  • It only lets you create a key for a action that has a menu. (for example, you cannot define a key to launch a app.)
  • Numerical keypad keys cannot be used as trigger. (For example, you cannot make the number pad keys as personalized extra function keys.)

Suppose you have a gaming mouse,and you've set buttons to do copy and paste, across any computer running macOS.But you've also madeF2 as copy on your home Mac, so you can do them easily from keyboard too.Now, your mouse copy button don't work anymore, because⌘command+cno longer works.

Programable Keyboards

Get a programable keyboard with onboard memory. This is the best solution.Because you can plug the keyboard in any computer and it'll work with your settings.

See Programable Keyboards with Onboard Memory

or, get a programable keypad.

App Launcher

App launchers are primarily designed to launch apps, open files, run scripts.You set a key to do them, or, a hotkey that pops up a dialog, then type any letter to launch or search.

Quicksilver. A app launcher. Assign hotkey to launch/switch/open apps or files. The hotkey can be single key (For example, F1) or combo-key (For example, ⌘command+F1).

Alfred Automation Tool

Hammerspoon Automation Tool

Using lua as scripting language.

Keyboard Maestro

Text Editor Key Behavior

aka DefaultKeyBinding.dict

This is macOS's system-wide mechanism, for creating keybinding to control cursor movement or editing operations.

How to configure parallels desktop for mac. See: macOS: Create Custom Keyboard Layout

USB Overdrive

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USB Overdrive is low-level USB tool. It lets you remap key or mouse buttons at USB level.

Excellent.

[USB Overdrive By Alessandro Levi Montalcini. At http://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/News.html ]

View Keypress and Keycode

Install[Karabiner-Elements At https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/ ]

It'll also install a 'Karabiner-EventViewer'. It's in your Applications folder.

Launch it, and press key or mouse button and it'll show the keycode.

ControllerMate

[ControllerMate At http://www.orderedbytes.com/controllermate/. Commercial. USB interface mapper. Seems to let you remap any USB input device's signals in flexible ways, including mouse.]

Download paid apps for free mac. [review of ControllerMate by Jonny, 2017-02-27.]

I've been using ControllerMate for several years now and I have to saythat it is really an amazing and extremely powerful piece of software,and very flexible! The developer is also very quick to respond to questionson the forum and to come up with solutions which require coding (custompatches or add ons to download, or updates to download- depending on thesituation). There is a bit of a learning curve! And while the interfaceis logical and straightforward, getting used to the basic underlying logicbehind it all takes some time. But I can't even begin to explain all theunique and creative things you can do with it.

But I'll give a could examples.. I quite easily was able to switcharound and re-program lots keys on my keyboard (KM0Z1-5N6P and was ableto physically switch the keys around as well to match), I also did somemore complicated reprogramming using the Apps/Menu key almost like a newmodifier, mainly to launch apps but also to access the higher Fn-keys (adding10 to what's printed on the keyboard — only up to F20 though which he saysis the MacOS limit).

I also customized my trackball so that if I double-middle-click-hold the ball becomes an any direction scroll 'ball'.

Another major product was creating a very unique, customized programmingfor a Logitech G13. I did use the native software for just a couple offunctions- basically for setting up the backlight colors for the various'pages' and configuring the applets. One cool thing I did that I use allthe time is to setup the joystick to switch 'Spaces' (Mission Control),and to move windows between my multiple monitors, and to move windows between'Spaces' depending on which of the adjacent button(s) I'm holding. It'sSUPER easy and convenient! I also use those buttons (pretty much designedto be mouse buttons) as shift-life modifiers to access deeper levels ofthe closer buttons (in addition to and unique for the 3 ‘main' pages whichare built in). In some cases I set them up to trigger regular hotkeys,sometimes I create custom hotkeys with the keyboard control panel (typicallyusing combos involving keys that aren't even on my keyboard or that arevery difficult to type), and sometimes I have them trigger AppleScriptsthat native commands or use GUI control but only if the app is alreadyrunning.

Honestly that barely even scratches the surface of all the things Iknow that ControllerMate can do which is only a fraction of what it canreally do!

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