Assign CapsLock to RightControl
I'm using Handy.app (cjpais/Handy) for text-to-speech and hold-to-speak functionality. Which button to use? Right Option rarely used, but I do use it as Hyper key in Emacs, in particular {H-RET} calls visit-source (visit-source.el).
Right Control also rarely used and does exists on my Keyboardio Model 100. But, it turned out macOS remaps CapsLock to Right Control from the SystemSettings.app.
I need some remapping then, for internal keyboard only:
- CapsLock to Left Control
- Left Control to Right Control
To achieve that, store the plist to ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.local.keyboard-remap.plist file.
To rebind live without reboot, run hidutil commands manually. In SystemSettings.app
set default CapsLock binding (CapsLock to CapsLock).
<?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>com.local.keyboard-remap</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/bin/sh</string>
<string>-c</string>
<string>
/usr/bin/hidutil property --set '{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000039,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x7000000E0}]}';
/usr/bin/hidutil property --matching '{"VendorID":0x0,"ProductID":0x0}' --set '{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000039,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x7000000E0},{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x7000000E0,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x7000000E4}]}'
</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>
