Backslash on German MacBook Keyboard [duplicate]
The two apps most commonly used to do this are
Ukelele
and
Karabiner
There’s a lot of other options, but these are the easiest in practice for most people to just manage their layouts easily.
Remapping § to `
and ± to ~
worked on my Mac (running OS X 10.15.6) without additional software with the following code snippet.
hidutil property --set '{"UserKeyMapping":
[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000035,
"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x700000064},
{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000064,
"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x700000035}]
}'
To do this automatically at startup, I use a launchctl
script called com.user.loginscript.plist
.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.user.loginscript</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/bin/hidutil</string>
<string>property</string>
<string>--set</string>
<string>{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000035, "HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x700000064}, {"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000064, "HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x700000035}]}</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>
The file needs to be registered with a one-off execution of the following command:
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.user.loginscript.plist
See also this solution which explains how to use Automator instead of launchctl
.
https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements/blob/master/usage/README.md#how-to-configure-karabiner-elements
Here is explains "EXACTLY" the problem that I am having with a simple solution.
You need to update karabiner.json and add this part:
{
"profiles": [
{
"name": "Default profile",
"selected": true,
"simple_modifications": {
"non_us_backslash": "grave_accent_and_tilde",
"grave_accent_and_tilde" : "non_us_backslash"
}
}
]
}