Karabiner-elements: Escape on TouchBar can not be mapped

[caillou]

I have tried to map the esc key of the TouchBar, but without any success.

Karabiner-EventViewer.app registers the key-up and key-down events on 0x29. But adding a mapping to it does not do anything. Escape functionality continues. Every other key can be mapped.

Tested on a 2018 MacBook Pro 13'' with macOS 10.13.6 and Karabiner-Elements-12.1.0.

[JakimLi]

Same issue here. Also tried Complex modifications, nothing works for escape related modifications.

[tommyc38]

Did you guys try and map the escape key to another key (e.g. control left) in preferences and then try doing your karibiner mappings? I am wanting to purchase a 15 inch MBP but won't if I can't use the control-left as both escape and modifier during long key press.

[caillou]

@tommyc38 I am not entirely sure I understand what you mean by saying the following:

Did you guys try and map the escape key to another key (e.g. control left) in preferences

Which preferences do you mean?

[tommyc38]

The preferences in Mac OS (e.g. Keyboard System Preferences).

[caillou]

@tommyc38 Where exactly in the keyboard system preferences would I find a possibility to remap the ESC key?

[tommyc38]

http://osxdaily.com/2017/02/20/remap-hardware-escape-key-mac/

[caillou]

@tommyc38 If you read the article you sent, then you see that it is not possible to remap the ECS key, but to remap another key to ESC. Subtle but important difference.

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[aaroncraigongithub]

I'm having the same issue on a new MacBook Pro -- I had the touchbar esc => right_command mapping working on an older MacBook (2016) that was also running Mojave, so not sure what has changed, if anything.

Super annoying because the touchbar escape key moves around and creates all sorts of havoc.

[ShangyinGao]

having the same issue.
I want to switch esc and grave_accent just because I use a lot esc and want to have some physical feedback. But it failed to map esc to grave_accent.

Hope to get some useful answer

[jm3]

Can anyone clue me into, as mentioned in #780, how to restore ⌘-⌥-ESC when Karabiner Elements is running? That issue was auto-closed by the stale bot, but as far as I can see, it remains unresolved.

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[caillou]

This issue is still existing. How can it be re-opened?

[owst]

@caillou not sure if you're having the same issue, but my escape mapping had no effect (escape would still act as escape) on the touch-bar until I enabled both devices as per https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements/issues/780#issuecomment-459202239

Now I have successfully mapped caps_lock => escape and escape => caps_lock

[vegerot]

Solution: Check "No Product Name" in "Devices" menu!

@jm3 I didn't fix it cause it is not a bug at all. You need to check both the items listed in the "Devices" sub-table. See below

As touch bar is recognized as a secondary keyboard, you need to make sure it is set to respond to Karabiner's manipulation.

_Originally posted by @RoadToDream in https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/780#issuecomment-459202239_