/Karabiner

Karabiner (KeyRemap4MacBook) is a powerful utility for keyboard customization.

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Karabiner

Karabiner is a powerful utility for keyboard customization.

  • Change the key mappings (For example, "Change Right Option to Enter")
  • Change the key repeat speed.
  • The revival of a lost NumPad key (Fn+jkluio789…)
  • Features for more efficient operations. (Emacs Mode, Vi Mode, Mouse Keys Mode, ...)

Prior to version 9.3.0, Karabiner was called KeyRemap4MacBook.

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System requirements

Karabiner works for all Mac products, including the MacBook series, iMac, Mac mini, and Mac Pro, with the requirement that the product runs OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) or higher.

  • If you require Karabiner for OS X 10.6 - 10.8, please use KeyRemap4MacBook 8.4.0.
  • If you require Karabiner for OS X 10.4 - 10.5, please use KeyRemap4MacBook 5.1.0.

How to build

System requirements:

Please install Boost into /usr/local/include/boost.

Step 1: Getting source code

Download the source to master.tar.gz in the current directory, this can be re-executed to restart a cancelled download.

curl -OLC - https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner/archive/master.tar.gz

Extract the master.tar.gz file to "Karabiner-master" and delete the tar.gz file

tar -xvzf master.tar.gz && rm master.tar.gz

Step 2: Building a package

cd Karabiner-master
make

The make script will create a redistributable Karabiner-VERSION.dmg in the current directory.

Note: The build may fail if you have changed any environment variables or if you have modified scripts in the /usr/bin locations. Use a clean environment (new account) if this is the case.