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Heads up for anyone using Karabiner to remap their keyboard-- it's not updated for Sierra yet.

I figure that's a more popular app among HN crowd than most places, and losing it is really painful.

Hijacking this to point out about as comprehensive a list of software compatibility with Sierra as I have found: https://roaringapps.com/apps?platform=osx&os=sierra

I have used it on past releases (El Cap, Yosemite, etc) and it has always been a great source for tracking the software I care about as a developer.

Oh, thanks. That saved me from a lot of trouble. :) This is the Github issue if anyone needs to subscribe to this issue: https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner/issues/660

EDIT: I read the comments at above issue; the version for MacOS Sierra is being developed as "Karabiner-Elements" [1]

And you can make a donation to the author here[2].

[1] https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements

[2] https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/donation.html.en

This README[1] has instructions for installing Karabiner-Elements and has a few examples for mapping some common keys such as caps-lock to escape:

[1] https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements/blob/master/usa...

Does that mean Karabiner and Seil are now combined?

I mapped my Caps Lock to escape, but I just realized that it's not by Karabiner, and I need Seil from the same author to do it.

Sounds like it may take a while:

> macOS 10.12 changes of the generic keyboard and mouse drivers made a great impact on Karabiner and Seil.

> We should make a large changes in Karabiner and Seil architecture.

> There is not a workaround for this issue.

> Please wait an update of Karabiner and Seil for macOS 10.12.

> (It may take a long time.)

What can Karabiner do better than Ukelele?

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...

It can do almost anything with the keyboard. I'd suggest just checking it out. A lot of people make changes to caps lock, shift key, left/right option/command, etc. I only do two things, setting fn to send hyper and swapping semicolon/colon. It's more about individual rules than a new keyboard layout (which is what Ukulele appeared to be in my 5 minutes with it).

Maybe other people can chime in on their uses, since I'm not the best to fully answer your question.

It also has a lot of prebaked configurations in it. For example there's one that changes Slovenian Apple layout (which is pretty nonsensical with @ on 3rd level) to the standard layout used by PCs. That's hugely useful for people who use Mac Minis / iMacs with non-Apple keyboards (since Apple refuses to add the standard layout to OS X).

With Karabiner that's an issue of a single tick.

Karabiner has support for most, if not all, keys on the keyboard. On a Mac, the Function keys aren't properly supported by the other key remapping apps. With Karabiner, I can use a PC keyboard to change screen brightness, volume, etc. I can also remap Fn+JKLI to the arrow keys, and much more.

Sticky keys are the big one for me. I have Ctrl mapped to act as Ctrl when pressed at the same time as another key, or to act as Esc when pressed alone.

It's not currently supported by Karabiner-Elements; I haven't found a way to do this on macOS Sierra yet.

This is what I am missing from Karabiner Elements. Did you find a workaround?

Keep an eye on the github issue; a few people have found kinda-sorta-workarounds. https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements

I've postponed the Sierra upgrade on my main dev box until this is sorted out.

Seil does Caps Lock rebinding, I use it for keyboard layout switch.

Any recommendations for a simple keyboard remapper that is compatible with Sierra? All I need is to swap the @ with "

Not sure if it still works, but the ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict approach maybe?

I use it for putting # on the § key, and it's as simple as:

    {
    "\U00a7" =     (
        "insertText:",
        "#"
    );
    }

in that file. YMMV on >capitan though.

Isn't one of Apple's UK mappings sufficient?

Thanks for the tip - unfortunately that mapping changes too many other things on the keyboard at the same time.

Flycut clipboard history also broken. (Menubar icon flashes open then closes on click, rendering it unusable.)

Phew, was going to lose my Caps Lock -> Ctrl + Escape binding. I downloaded the update, but will wait for Karabiner to support it.

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