

Specific for the native Apple keyboardsīefore we dive into Goku and the keyboard customizations first the application preferences.
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Karabiner-Elements to manage the keyboard customizations,.

That didn’t work as nicely as I expected. At first I used Karabiner-Elements only to swap the left-option (⌥) and left-command (⌘) key and a hyperkey for Hammerspoon. There is overlap in functionality between Karabiner-Elements and Hammerspoon. I looked at the macOS native options, invested some time exploring the available tools and decided to use Karabiner-Elements, Goku and Hammerspoon. I prefer to have a dedicated key for grave accent (`) and tilde (~). By default the function of this combined Escape-key can be modified with fn+q. The keyboard has only 5 rows, the main reason to combine three keys into one Escape key. The main goal was to swap the Window (❖)- and Alt- keys for the Command (⌘)- and Option (⌥) keys. A nice compact PC keyboard with proper arrow-keys. I bought this Qisan Magicforce 68 mechanical keyboard, with a PC layout. In part 1 I wrote about the tools and native ways I encountered to customize my keyboard. This is part 2 of my “Keyboard redefined” post.
