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I just tested macOS Sonoma 14.5, and splitting a multi-key keyboard shortcut across multiple keyboards causes the shortcut to not be recognised.

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This question on StackExchange[0] has the same issue, and it looks like Karabiner-Elements[1] has an option to fix the issue (though I haven't tested this myself).

[0]: https://superuser.com/questions/707225/how-can-i-combine-the...

[1]: https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/

This works!

Mate, you have no idea how frustrating this has been for 4+ years.

It used to work fine, and then Apple did something that broke it... and this tool lets me push Shift / Option on one keyboard and have that reflected with what signal my mouse keys send. Thank you!

https://imgur.com/a/93kPg5D

I haven't got a clue why this works on every PC, or Linux computer, and it used to work on Mac, but then all of a sudden it didn't work on Mac... just strikes me as an absurd anti-accessibility Mac choice. But hey, this fixed it!

(It was a bit of a beast to install, not gonna lie, took about 8 restarts, and had some weird hang as I was installing drivers and all the keyboards stopped working... and I was a bit scared but I held down power to cycle it off... and luckily that key worked... and when it came back on it started working. Ha.)

I suspect it's so that applications and macro buttons on mice can send keyboard shortcuts without the risk of their keyboard input interfering with the user's keyboard or vice versa. It may also help in cases where there are multiple keyboards, one of which has something on it sending unwanted keystrokes, as any modifiers held down wouldn't affect input on the other keyboard. But it should be a configurable option for exactly this kind of reason. Anyway, glad this worked for you.

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