Karabiner-elements: feature request: auto switch profile

Created on 15 Mar 2017 · 12Comments · Source: pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements

feature description:

hope to switch to a profile when you plug in a specified keyboard, and switch back to another profile when you pull out it.

why should add this feature:

most external keyboard is for PCs, which has different keyboard layout from apple's keyboard. It's likely that users may remap some keys in external keyboard (and save the modification in a profile) to make them suitable for macOS while keep the internal keyboard unchanged (another profile without these remap modification). So it would be very convenient if karabiner-elements can auto switch the profile based on if the external keyboard is plugged in.

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Zieng

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My workaround is to use Hammerspoon's hs.usb.watcher and call K-E's CLI to switch between profiles when an external keyboard is attached or detached.

knu on 31 Mar 2017

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Seconding this!

fridayd on 16 Mar 2017

It is great to have profile in the latest version! I'd love to have auto switch too!

aetherwu on 20 Mar 2017

Even better is to have different profiles apply to different keyboards you specify and avoid doing any switching altogether if that is possible

ktham on 20 Mar 2017

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This would be very nice.

sn0wyfall on 26 Mar 2017

+1 Much need feature. There should be keyboard specific profiles. Every time I use my Macbook's keyboard I have to manually switch profiles because the external one needed remapping.

nklmilojevic on 31 Mar 2017

My workaround is to use Hammerspoon's hs.usb.watcher and call K-E's CLI to switch between profiles when an external keyboard is attached or detached.

knu on 31 Mar 2017

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Nice workaround, it solves my problem completely because I'm already using Hammerspoon for Hyper key shortcuts. Thanks!

nklmilojevic on 31 Mar 2017

I am using Karabiner-Elements now and it does not have anymore a command line utility to switch profile.

If you are interested, combining this to hammerspoon is quite easy.

It is a quick and dirty python hack: https://gist.github.com/crisidev/35b214c660ead41e036ec8a9c7e29cc1

crisidev on 7 Jul 2017

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stale[bot] on 4 Mar 2018

Is there any way to do this now? Karabiner Elements has come a long way.

sn0wyfall on 6 Mar 2018

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stale[bot] on 5 May 2018

There's also autokbisw but I'd really rather only use one tool. 😄