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Brew karabiner7/9/2023 ![]() I gave a quick look at some of the examples and almost abandoned my Goku effort half way.īut after spending an 11 hour flight back home fiddling and learning how to use Goku, I’ve gotten a decent hang of the format and I admit it’s super mantainable. Speaking as a programmer the edn format is quite possibly the most terse, terrible format I’ve encountered. my karabiner.edn file on the other hand has 140 lines (and most of it is liberal commenting and whitespace to combat edn’s terseness).my karabiner.json file currently has about 920 lines.Goku then reads that edn format and generates the karabiner.json file for you. You write the code in this special format called “extensible data notation” (edn). Goku basically is a DSL where you can write a nice and condensed form of the same code you would otherwise wrangle up in your karabiner.json. So on an exaseperated whim, I went searching for a way to make it easier to deal with Karabiner and found the wonderful Goku. Let’s just say json is not the most maintainable format for this kind of stuff.Īfter meddling with Karabiner for a few days, it was clearly getting unwieldy to maintain the json file. See the problem with Karabiner is that if you want to start doing the tricks I mention above, you pretty much have to start meddling directly with this file called karabiner.json. How do I do this?īefore you head to the races and start using Karabiner though there’s one caveat: This kind of usage in conjunction with Keyboard Maestro basically unleashes the power of your Mac. Hold "s" + tap g -> google for something on the web Instead of moving my fingers all the way to the bottom right of my keyboard and aiming for the arrow keys what if I could just keep my fingers on my home row and navigate like so: While they don’t come with dedicated arrow keys you can emulate navigation in a pretty slick way (especiallly for us vim users). Where Karabiner will truly shine is when you want to do slightly more complex things: for example, take the case of navigation with 60% keyboards. ![]() You can do this pretty easily with Karabiner but it barely scratches the surface of Karabiner’s true power. So if I tap the Caps Lock key, it instead emulates hitting the Escape key. Karabiner intercepts every keystroke and allows you to send alternative signals.įor example, a common mod that a lot of programmers like to do is remap their Caps Lock key -> Escape. The easiest way I’ve found on the Mac to do this is using Karabiner. I liked these mods so much that I wanted to find a way to use these mods with any keyboard I use. I added a bunch of mods for the keyboard using the mechanical keyboard’s included software configurator. The closest I could find was do a launchctl dumpstate and grep for the service name.Given these constraints, you have to get a little creative with how you use a keyboard. There doesn’t seem to be easy way of finding the. ![]() These are stored in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons (the ones provided by Apple) and /Library/LaunchDaemons (the ones from 3rd parties on my system I have Karabiner, iStat Menu, Docker – presumeably the user agents talk to these).They don’t require anyone to be logged in. Daemons are services run by the system either as the root user or any other username specified in the service definition.It would appear that /System/Library/LaunchAgents have agents which have a GUI presence while /Library/LaunchAgents are GUI-less?.These are stored in ~/Library/LaunchAgents (empty on my system) and /Library/LaunchAgents (on my system ssh-agent is the only one I recognize, but there’s a whole bunch more) and /System/Library/LaunchAgents (on my system I have iStat Menu, Karabiner, Citrix WorkSpace, etc.).They obviously require someone to be logged in to run. Agents are services run for the logged in user (the output of my launchctl list command above without a sudo).There’s two types of services as far as launchd is concerned. ![]()
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