Map Caps Lock to change keyboard layout in Mac OS X
Solution 1:
Expanding answer of @mrded for macOS Sierra.
I used Karabiner-Elements to remap caps_lock
to f19
. To this end I placed the following file karabiner.json
to ~/.karabiner.d/configuration
:
{
"profiles": [
{
"name": "Default profile",
"selected": true,
"simple_modifications": {
"caps_lock": "f19"
}
}
]
}
Then I opened Keyboard preferences → Shortcuts → Input sources and selected F19
as "Select the previous input source" option.
Note also that according to Lifehacker, there is built-in feature in macOS Sierra to switch layouts with Caps Lock but it seem to work only with some layouts. (At least I don't see this feature for my layouts which are Ilya Birman's typographic Latin/Cyrillic.)
Solution 2:
It depends on the version of Mac OS X you are running (on 10.13.5 it's definitely possible). System settings -> Keyboard -> Input sources -> checkbox about Caps Lock