![]() Follow along then with the official tutorial as they explain the basics.Read this fantastic blog post by Nikita Voloboev once. ![]() I’m not going to explain how to use Goku, but I’ll tell you what helped me pick it up: 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. I think you should be done now, if it doesn't work immediately after (test the hotkey a few times to make sure first), restart the application with Activity Monitor, and try restarting your Mac if that doesn't work either.Given these constraints, you have to get a little creative with how you use a keyboard. After you have created a JSON complex modification in the said folder, open Karabiner Elements (which should be in the Applications folder) and click "Complex Modifications" click "Add rule" and you should see your title, click "enable" to the right of it. Also feel free to change the title and description to whatever you want. I installed wine using "brew install wine-stable", so you might have to change the locations for wine-preloader and wine64-preloader depending on where they are located on your Mac. "^/Applications/Wine Stable.app/Contents/Resources/wine/bin/wine64-preloader" "^/Applications/Wine Stable.app/Contents/Resources/wine/bin/wine-preloader", ![]() "description": "Swap Command with control for Wine.",
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