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Karabiner is a bloatware. I've spent some time to uninstall it completely.

For a simple keyboard remapping I use built-in 'hidutil' command. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2450...

There is also https://hidutil-generator.netlify.app/

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While I understand it might be overengineering for your use cases, it isn't bloatware.

Karabiner can do more than simple 1:1 key remapping. For example, my capslock key is now a hyperkey when pressed and ⌘T when tapped. If that is possible w/ hidutil, please let me know and I stand corrected.

Let's get off the "I don't have a use for it, so it's useless/bad" train, please.

Is it possible to remove caps lock delay with this? I used built in remapper on Mac os to remap caps to esc and there was this massive delay. Unusable for vim. But with karabiner it prompts and removes the delay.

Edit: can perhaps use https://github.com/gkpln3/CapsLockNoDelay

I use caps to escape too but I don't see any delay. I don't use vim BTW.

Incredible that I'm only learning about hidutil today... thank you.

To your knowledge, is there any cli way to assign key combinations to menu items as seen in system preferences -> keyboard shortcuts?

These are stored in the defaults system, by program, under `NSUserKeyEquivalents` For example if you have some set for Firefox, run

    $ defaults read org.mozilla.firefox NSUserKeyEquivalents

The encoding for the modifier keys is given here: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...

This is incredibly helpful, thank you.

TIL about 'hidutil', do you know if it can remap single key to a combination of keys? E.g: remap Caps Lock to "Ctrl + Option + CMD"

I'm not aware of such feature but I've found that there are other properties in hidutil configuration

https://github.com/FSecureLABS/OSXFuzz/blob/600f28c1c4a1211c....

    "HIDKind",
    "HIDInterfaceID",
    "HIDSubinterfaceID",
    "HIDOriginalSubinterfaceID",
    "HIDParameters",
    "HIDVirtualDevice",
    "HIDKeyRepeat",
    "HIDInitialKeyMapping",
    "HIDKeyMapping",
    "HIDResetKeyboard",
    "HIDKeyboardModifierMappingPairs",
    "HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc",
    "HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst",
    "HIDKeyboardCapsLockDoesLock",
    "HIDKeyboardSupportsF12Eject",
    "HIDKeyboardSupportedModifers",
    "HIDPointerResolution",
    "HIDPointerResetPointer",
    "HIDPointerConvertAbsolute",
    "HIDPointerContactToMove",
    "HIDPointerPressureToClick",
    "HIDPointerButtonMode",
    "HIDPointerButtonCount",
    "HIDPointerAcceleration",
    "HIDPointerAccelerationSettings",
    "HIDPointerAccelerationTable",
    "HIDScrollReset",
    "HIDScrollResolution",
    "HIDScrollReportRate",
    "HIDScrollAcceleration",
    "HIDScrollAccelerationType",
    "HIDScrollAccelerationTable",
    "HIDScrollResolutionX",
    "HIDScrollResolutionY",
    "HIDScrollResolutionZ",
    "HIDScrollAccelerationTableX",
    "HIDScrollAccelerationTableY",
    "HIDScrollAccelerationTableZ",
    "HIDScrollMouseButton",
    "HIDScrollZoomModiferMask",
    "HIDTrackpadAcceleration",
    "HIDMouseAcceleration",
    "HIDClickTime",
    "HIDClickSpace",
    "HIDWaitCursorFrameInterval",
    "HIDAutoDimThreshold",
    "HIDAutoDimState",
    "HIDAutoDimTime",
    "HIDIdleTime",
    "HIDBrightness",
    "HIDAutoDimBrightness",
    "HIDFkeyMode",
    "HIDStickyKeysDisabled",
    "HIDStickyKeysOn",
    "HIDStickyKeysShiftToggles",
    "HIDMouseKeysOptionToggles",
    "HIDSlowKeysDelay",
    "HIDF12EjectDelay",
    "HIDMouseKeysOn",
    "HIDUseKeyswitch",
    "HIDDisallowRemappingOfPrimaryClick",
    "HIDMouseKeysEnablesVirtualNumPad",
    "HIDResetLEDs",
    "HIDAccelCurves",
    "HIDTrackingAccelCurves",
    "HIDScrollAccelCurves",
    "HIDAccellCurvesDebug",
    "HIDScrollAccelCurvesDebug",
    "HIDAccelGainLinear",
    "HIDAccelGainParabolic",
    "HIDAccelGainCubic",
    "HIDAccelGainQuartic",
    "HIDAccelTangentSpeedLinear",
    "HIDAccelTangentSpeedParabolicRoot",
    "HIDAccelTangestSpeedCubicRoot",
    "HIDAccelTangentSpeedQuarticRoot",
    "HIDAccelIndex",
    "HIDScrollCountMaxTimeDeltaBetween",
    "HIDScrollCountMaxTimeDeltaToSustain",
    "HIDScrollCountMinDeltaToSustain",
    "HIDScrollCountIgnoreMomentumScrolls",
    "HIDScrollCountMouseCanReset",
    "HIDScrollCountMax",
    "HIDScrollCountAccelerationFactor",
    "HIDScrollCountZero",
    "HIDScrollCountBootDefault",
    "HIDScrollCountReset",

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https://github.com/FSecureLABS/OSXFuzz/blob/master/OSXFuzz/l...

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