Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later. While it is very powerful, the developers are absolutely doing some great work, and it is an app beloved of many of the Internet’s more prominent Mac users, including yourself, some of the issues that seem to make it through put it in the ‘too risky’ bucket for me. The issue log on GitHub also makes for very interesting reading. I don’t want those headaches any more, and this sort of app can definitely affect system-stability, which is presumably what the OP has experienced. change capslock to control+command) Change modifiers+key to key. Change a key to combination of modifiers. Complex Modifications: Change keys by complex rules. Core features Simple Modifications: Change normal keys to other keys. I remember some of the really low-level stuff I used to use at work on Windows that IBM developed in partnership with Microsoft, and even that caused headaches in the real world a lot of the time. Karabiner-Elements is a powerful and stable keyboard customizer for macOS. I’ve got so many ways to trigger so many things (often multiple ways), that the cognitive load of adding a hyper-key with Karabiner and just the fundamental need over the hundred of options have just never taken me down that path.Īs it happens, I also *really* don’t like the idea of something poking around at that level without it being part of the OS or being developed in part with Apple. I rely on my more traditional key combinations, Alfred workflows, Keyboard Maestro palettes, a Stream Deck and/or Touch Bar (Better Touch Tool FTW!). Everything else I’ve ever seen always piggy-backs the work being done and has Karabiner as a prerequisite.

The thing is, Karabiner is doing some low-level wizardry, and it is the only thing that I’ve ever come across that goes down to that level to do this sort of thing. Select the key that you want to change the behaviour of. A big list of all the keys on your keyboard will pop up. Pull-down menus will appear in the From key and To key columns. That’s the nearest option I could find, and I agree, it isn’t a great match, but then I don’t think anything can be. Start by selecting the Simple modifications tab and then click the Add item button. The only issue for me would be that this method is not quite the hyper key:

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