Great ideas! I'm on Windows and I use autohotkey which is very similar to karabiner. Since a long time, I use sharpkey to substitute caps lock to alt. Then, I use autohotkey to create the arrows keys with j k l i. I'm a programmer and I continually have to use intellisense and don't have to move my hands from home row to arrow section is a game changer. I also inverse all top numeric keys which send ! when I press 1 and 1 when I press shift 1. I will for sure try to use your O launching with autohotkey and use the right shift key as an hyper key considering I sadly never this key otherwise.
Do you use the TouchCursor mods? They let you turn your home row (and adjacent) keys into cursor arrows with the spacebar as the trigger key so you don't have to leave the home row to navigate text/code. Once you've tried it you'll never want to go back to using regular arrow keys.
I’ve since swapped over to using RCMD (lowtechguys.com/rcmd/). I will do a video on it shortly. If you go to GitHub and look through the commit history you should be able to find the application launching config)
I bought a 75% keyboard k3 so my mouse position would be more natural. I've been thinking of trying to set up some kind of home row number key functionality with Karabiner.
My guess is the OS is using your function keys for system functions like Expose and Display brightness. You can see if this is the issue by folding the FN key on your keyboard and then press F1 to see if it does what your expecting. If it does you either continue doing that or go into either System preferences or Karabiner and tell it to force your F keys to act as F1, F2, etc
May know is KE working with M1 Monterey 12.2? I tried to install it a few times and was still not able to get it to work. When I run KE it just keeps asking me to add it to the access list as I did. Please help if you have a solution for it. Thanks a lot
Has anyone used the complex modification feature to map the home key to cmd + left (go to the beginning of the line) and end key to cmd + right arrow (go to the end of the line)? This used to work nicely several years back in an older version of Karabiner but I can't get it to work in the new version of the software. not sure if the issue is with Karabiner, Monteray, or the M1. Or maybe a combination.
@@BrandonKBoswell Hi.. the functionality is the same but it's accomplished by using one keystroke as opposed to two. I click home and it goes to the beginning of the line and I click end and the cursor moves to the end of the line. Simple and easy, this is the way it works on Windows. I've been a Mac user for almost 20 years but I still love the way Windows handles this. The good news is I found out why it wasn't working. Along the way, Karabiner seemed to add a toggle switch named "Modify events" under the devices menu. I didn't have it clicked, once I clicked it the custom action started working. Can't believe this was the issue. Glad that I found it. :)
Hey, I just got some of the karabiner rules from your config working, but I'm curious - You have the caps_lock to hyper/escape rule in there twice, but written slightly differently. Is that accidental, or is there a reason you have one at the beginning and one at the end? Thanks for all of this, it's really helpful!
Hey Ian, sorry about that. I just realized that the gist is outdated. I just repointed the link in the description to my keyboard repo that has exactly what I'm running right now: github.com/brandonkboswell/keyboard/blob/main/karabiner/karabiner.json
Great ideas! I'm on Windows and I use autohotkey which is very similar to karabiner. Since a long time, I use sharpkey to substitute caps lock to alt. Then, I use autohotkey to create the arrows keys with j k l i. I'm a programmer and I continually have to use intellisense and don't have to move my hands from home row to arrow section is a game changer. I also inverse all top numeric keys which send ! when I press 1 and 1 when I press shift 1. I will for sure try to use your O launching with autohotkey and use the right shift key as an hyper key considering I sadly never this key otherwise.
That’s nifty about inverting the number row, I had never thought of that!
I like the idea of navigation keys.. But I'm thinking JKLI with H being used for backspace.
Do you use the TouchCursor mods? They let you turn your home row (and adjacent) keys into cursor arrows with the spacebar as the trigger key so you don't have to leave the home row to navigate text/code. Once you've tried it you'll never want to go back to using regular arrow keys.
I want to see your VIA/QMK. I have a Keychron K8 Pro and want some tips and/or tricks to modify my board, outside of karabiner.
Just checked your configuration file and it doesn’t include the o application or [ application complex modifiers, what happened?
I’ve since swapped over to using RCMD (lowtechguys.com/rcmd/). I will do a video on it shortly. If you go to GitHub and look through the commit history you should be able to find the application launching config)
I bought a 75% keyboard k3 so my mouse position would be more natural. I've been thinking of trying to set up some kind of home row number key functionality with Karabiner.
I have a video coming up where I will touch on this, but check out: github.com/brandonkboswell/keyboard
Hi Brandon, im having trouble remapping the F1 as Copy and F2 as Paste..... What am i doing wrong? HELP..!
My guess is the OS is using your function keys for system functions like Expose and Display brightness. You can see if this is the issue by folding the FN key on your keyboard and then press F1 to see if it does what your expecting. If it does you either continue doing that or go into either System preferences or Karabiner and tell it to force your F keys to act as F1, F2, etc
Thanks for the info! Just switched over and cannot figure out how to reprogram the key with the Windows icon on it to Option. Any ideas??
You can do this natively in MacOS by going to Keyboard in the System Preferences and choosing modifier keys in the bottom right.
May know is KE working with M1 Monterey 12.2? I tried to install it a few times and was still not able to get it to work. When I run KE it just keeps asking me to add it to the access list as I did. Please help if you have a solution for it. Thanks a lot
I unfortunately don’t know.
Has anyone used the complex modification feature to map the home key to cmd + left (go to the beginning of the line) and end key to cmd + right arrow (go to the end of the line)? This used to work nicely several years back in an older version of Karabiner but I can't get it to work in the new version of the software. not sure if the issue is with Karabiner, Monteray, or the M1. Or maybe a combination.
Hey Mark, I’m a little slow this morning. How is that different to the current behavior of the arrow key with command?
@@BrandonKBoswell Hi.. the functionality is the same but it's accomplished by using one keystroke as opposed to two. I click home and it goes to the beginning of the line and I click end and the cursor moves to the end of the line. Simple and easy, this is the way it works on Windows. I've been a Mac user for almost 20 years but I still love the way Windows handles this. The good news is I found out why it wasn't working.
Along the way, Karabiner seemed to add a toggle switch named "Modify events" under the devices menu. I didn't have it clicked, once I clicked it the custom action started working. Can't believe this was the issue. Glad that I found it. :)
@@jig1056 I’m glad you figured it out. I had read your request backwards.
Hey, I just got some of the karabiner rules from your config working, but I'm curious - You have the caps_lock to hyper/escape rule in there twice, but written slightly differently. Is that accidental, or is there a reason you have one at the beginning and one at the end?
Thanks for all of this, it's really helpful!
Hey Ian, sorry about that. I just realized that the gist is outdated. I just repointed the link in the description to my keyboard repo that has exactly what I'm running right now: github.com/brandonkboswell/keyboard/blob/main/karabiner/karabiner.json
Do you regret choosing the 65% key because of the ~ thing? Will you buy a 75% keyboard?
Not at all. I have a TKL and much prefer the 65% form factor. I have shift + Escape bound to ~ and right command + escape bound to backtick
Tip for everyone, use goku to write configs, it will 5X your karabiner experience.
Goku?