/Karabiner-Elements

The next generation Karabiner prototyping for macOS Sierra

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Karabiner-Elements

Karabiner-Elements is the subset of the next generation Karabiner for macOS Sierra.

Project Status

Karabiner-Elements works fine.

You can download the latest Karabiner-Elements from https://pqrs.org/latest/karabiner-elements-latest.dmg

System requirements

  • OS X 10.11.*
  • OS X 10.12.*

Usage

Detailed usage instructions are available here.

Features

  • Simple key modification (change keys to another keys)
  • Support Secure Keyboard Entry (eg. Terminal, Password prompt)
  • Modifier flags sharing with all connected keyboards.

Limitations

  • Karabiner-Elements cannot modify eject key due to the limitation of macOS API.
  • Karabiner-Elements ignores the System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys... configuration.

How to build

System requirements:

To install the Boost requirement, download the latest Boost release, open the boost folder inside of it, and move all of the files there into /opt/local/include/boost/.

(For example, the version.hpp should be located in /opt/local/include/boost/version.hpp)

Step 1: Getting source code

Clone the source from github.

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements.git

Step 2: Building a package

cd Karabiner-Elements
make

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