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remap §/± to `/~ on max osx - 06-05-22

Got a new Macbook Pro with the start of my new job and I love it. Except. It did not come with and english keyboard. Now every time I try to type the backslash (`) or tilde (~) instead I get “§” or “±” 😔. Lucky for me there are a bunch of people with the same issue.

This base command to remap the key is:

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

but to make this survive a computer restart things get a little more complicated. For that you need you need a LaunchDaemon.

/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.custom.backslash-key-remap-fix.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>org.custom.backslash-key-remap-fix</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
      <string>/Users/travis.shears/projects/scripts/bin/backslash-key-remap-fix.sh</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <false/>
  </dict>
</plist>

/Users/travis.shears/projects/scripts/bin/backslash-key-remap-fix.sh

#/bin/sh -e

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

Sources:

\- [ mac, osx ]