Comment by BruceEel

3 years ago

Nice list.

Example:

     hidutil property --set '{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000049,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x700000065}]}'

For my PC keyboard, remaps "Ins" (normally useless under macOS) to something ("PC Execute") I can trap and remap with Keyboard Maestro.

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BruceEel

    hidutil property --set '{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000064,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x700000035}]}'

Remaps top left key on Euro-style keyboards from useless "paragraph" to useful "backtick".

kevans91 3 years ago

Yes, this is great... I was given a Macbook with a Norweigan keyboard for testing a port of FreeBSD on it, and I quickly discovered that the keyboard layout remapping stuff available via the UI won't remap at least this one key to what I'd find on my US keyboard.

There's a nice generator for these mappings https://hidutil-generator.netlify.app/

xiaomai 3 years ago

Oh wow, this is amazing. I had been unable to _swap_ esc and caps lock on the mac until now.

not to be confused with hdiutil:

    hdiutil detach /Volumes/some-usb-drive

    hdiutil makehybrid -joliet -o foo.iso ./srcfolder/