Pertaining to the settings which define what a key press on the keyboard will do.
Keybindings can be set via the Keyboard Preference Pane, or inside of applications which provide this feature.
Questions tagged [keybindings]
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Create emacs-style keychains keybindings in hammerspoon?
I discovered Hammerspoon today, a keybinding and desktop automation tool reminiscent of i3wm or awesonewm for linux, but combined with something like xdotool.
I am an emacs user, and find emacs's (and similarly vim's) solution of using "prefix" keys…
Att Righ
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keybinding for macOS Sierra
As it needs 3 keys on a German keyboard (alt shift 7) to get a backslash, I would like to use the keys on the numerical keyboard to get this character (and others difficult to obtain as é). I tried two different versions of…
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Remap SHIFT + SPACE to underscore?
I'd like to remap the shift key (⇧) + space (␣) to underscore (_)
I'd prefer to not have to install any third party tools if possible.
Similar question for windows
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Can't rebind caret and tilde in DefaultKeyBinding.dict
I have an extensive DefaultKeyBinding.Dict file that mostly works very well for me. I use Karabiner Elements to change the behavior of the right-alt so that it sends §, which signals the beginning of a compose sequence, and then the keybinding…
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Karabiner F1 to Launch Defined Applications?
What is the coding to program my F1 key to launch an application that needs to be defined (like Notes) using Karabiner?
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Karabiner F1 to Launch Safari?
What is the coding to program my F1 key to launch the Safari application using Karabiner?
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Mapping does not work with some characters in KeyRemap4Macbook
I want to map Option+Dot and Option+Comma to word-by-word movement in KeyRemap4Macbook. Option+Dot works but Option+Comma does not. Also using any other character such as W, V etc. instead of Comma does not work. They simply put the symbols normally…
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Mapping OPTION + MINUS key in skhd
I would like to map out the key combination Opt+- to shift focus to another monitor using yabai using skhd. Something like this:
alt - MINUS : yabai -m display --focus recent
However, I have not been able to figure out what to put in for "MINUS". I…
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Binding consecutive keypresses to separate actions in Hammerspoon
I am trying to achieve the following scenario in Hammerspoon:
when I press ctrl + alt + E (and no other key is pressed within 300
ms) => launch Finder
when I press ctrl + alt + E and then again
another E within 300 milliseconds => launch Excel,…
John
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Binding modifier key to mouse button 4 using KeyRemap4MacBook
I'm wanting to do this so when I'm gaming I can use the mouse button as my modifier "shift" key instead of having to actually hit ⇧+1 or ⇧+2. This will prevent me from having to take my fingers off of the "1-4" or "Q-R" keys in order to modify them…
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Which application changed Mac OS X [Option]+[D] keybinding
When I press Option+D key in OS X, the current application loses focus. And if I press it again, the current window gets focus back.
How do I know which application bind that or how to avoid it. I checked the shortcuts in System Preferences and…
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Changing default symbols bound to option key?
When I type ⌥ and some letter a special character usually shows up - this would be really useful except for the fact that I have no use for a lot of these characters. How can I customize which characters are bound to these shortcuts?
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How can I remap keys on a headless mac?
At the moment I'm remotely accessing my mac via logmein. I'm trying to remap Command to Control via system preferences. However every time I try to do this it keeps resetting to the default. As best I can tell this is because there is no keyboard…
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Why is there an emacs keybinding for character transpose?
There is a special keybinding for transposing two characters in a text field: ctrl-t. Is this functionality really that useful to deserve a keybinding? I want to know what I am missing by not using it.
Side question: Can I remap ctrl-t to something…
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How can I have unlimited keyboard shortcuts?
There's only so many keys in a keyboard, I want limitless
possibilities with key bindings by being able to bind key sequences
to actions.
How can I bind an action to an extended shortcut?
Let's say
Control-x-k to 'open textedit'
I know there's…
