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After opening the system preferences, select Privacy -> Input Monitoring, and then enable permissions for karabiner_grabber and karabiner_observer.On both alerts, press the “Open System Preferences” button. Two alerts will be displayed to inform you that you need to change the permissions for a program in the MacOS core.Click the “Open Security & Privacy System Preferences” button, and then press the “Allow” button. You must accept the program’s requirements and allow Karabiner Elements to monitor your processes. When you first start Karabiner Elements, you will see the alert shown below.pkg file, the Karabiner Elements installer will open.

Download the program from the official Karabiner Elements website.

How to install Karabiner Elements on MacOS? Operations such as creating shortcuts to send keyboard events, adjusting the behavior of mouse buttons, setting “hyper keys” and changing modifier keys are a few such modifications that can be done with this software. In addition, device-specific profiles and modifications can also be created, which is not possible with many similar programs.Īnother aspect that makes Karabiner Elements the preferred option for customizing Mac keyboards is its ability to make complex modifications. With its help, you can modify the actions of almost all types of keys on the keyboard: regular characters to function keys and modifiers. In this case when I press the “button4” I simulate the shortcut CMD++ALT.Karabiner Elements is a software designed to customize the keyboard in MacOS, which allows, among other things, to map Mac keys. In this rule I had to add a condition, the rule works only if the frontmost application is different than Firefox. After I wrote this rule I discovered that it also works in the Finder but it does not work in Firefox because Firefox does not support this shortcut (I wrote a different rule for it).

First of all, I wanted to use the “button4” to go back to the previous page in Safari.You can find the entire file in this Github repository.

Into this section of the JSON file, we have to add some rules to remap the mouse’s button.Īs an example, I’ll put here some snippets taken from my configuration. Into the karabiner.json file, we have to add some pieces of information in the “complex_modifications” field. As you can see from the image, using the Event Viewer you can precisely understand what happens when you press a button on your keyboard or on your mouse.