Karabiner-elements: Karabiner not working at all in Mojave

[quinnalexander]

Seriously. No effect whatsoever. Quit working upon updating to Mojave two days ago. None of my simple mods are working even. Restart didn't fix it. Anyone else having this issue?

[ghost]

I do have it sometimes. It really depends :( sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt and presses every key twice :(

[msaffitz]

Reinstalling Karabiner fixed the issue for me on Mojave. The underlying issue appeared to be:

[grabber] virtual_hid_device_client is not connected yet. Please wait for a while.

And the kext not being active / installed on my system.

[ghost]

Reinstalling Karabiner fixed the issue for me on Mojave. The underlying issue appeared to be:

[grabber] virtual_hid_device_client is not connected yet. Please wait for a while.

And the kext not being active / installed on my system.

Yep this actually worked I'm surprized.

[detailyang]

fixed by upgrade to beta version

[silentred]

I upgraded macos from high sierra, then 3 karabiner daemons (karabiner-console and 2 others) killed my keyboard. I had to restart to safe mode to delete Karabiner under /Library/Application Support/org... by hand.

[Glurz]

Parts of karabiner elements seem to work under Mojave, but I'm unable to get mac hot keys working (fn + function keys) with my WASD keyboard.

[alvaro1728]

Just confirmed that reinstalling fixes the problem. Thanks @msaffitz!

[HBinswanger]

With Mojave, is there any way to import the key mappings I used with Yosemite? I couldn't do that with High Sierra.

[stevencch99]

Reinstalling Karabiner fixed the issue for me on Mojave. The underlying issue appeared to be:

[grabber] virtual_hid_device_client is not connected yet. Please wait for a while.

And the kext not being active / installed on my system.

It worked for me too, thank you!

[HBinswanger]

Can somebody tell me how to at least have shifted states be hotkeys? E.g. to have ctrl-h send Home? The old Karabiner could be programmed. The new one shows no way of doing that.

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Reinstalling Karabiner fixed the issue for me on Mojave. The underlying issue appeared to be:

[grabber] virtual_hid_device_client is not connected yet. Please wait for a while.
And the kext not being active / installed on my system.

It worked for me too, thank you!

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[bwanaaa]

• OS X version: Mojave (10.14)
• Karabiner version: 12.10.0
  (You can confirm the version in "Misc & Uninstall" tab in Karabiner Preferences.)
• Your Mac hardware: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
• Your keyboard hardware: integrated keyboard

I have assigned the shift-ctrl-option-command combo with the left bracket to resize a window to the left half of the screen using slate. This works properly.

I have assigned caps_lock to hyper(shift-ctrl-option-command combo) in karabiner elements in the complex actions.

Holding keycap and pressing left bracket does nothing. here is the event viewer log
eventType:key_down code:0x6e name:f19 misc:
eventType:key_down code:0x2f name:open_bracket misc:
eventType:key_up code:0x2f name:open_bracket misc:
eventType:key_up code:0x6e name:f19 misc:

but holding the hift-ctrl-option-command combo and open bracket properly resizes the finder window to the left half of the screen.
eventType:key_down code:0xe1 name:left_shift misc:
eventType:key_down code:0xe0 name:left_control misc:
eventType:key_down code:0xe2 name:left_alt misc:
eventType:key_down code:0xe3 name:left_gui misc:
eventType:key_down code:0x2f name:open_bracket misc:
eventType:key_up code:0x2f name:open_bracket misc:
eventType:key_up code:0xe0 name:left_control misc:
eventType:key_up code:0xe2 name:left_alt misc:
eventType:key_up code:0xe1 name:left_shift misc:
eventType:key_up code:0xe3 name:left_gui misc:

This system was updated to mojave from el capitan. In el capitan (10.11.15 i think) I was using seil and karabiner and these worked fine. Of course they do not work in mojave so i uninstalled them both and installed karabiner elements. my login items (under users and groups in sys prefs) includes karabiner elements.

Whether I have assigned caps lock to no action in the keyboard prefs makes no difference. For both the apple internal keyboard and the virtual hid karabiner keyboard.

How can i troubleshoot this further? I really like using slate and the hyper key is invaluable.

Another thing I miss was the ability to type an open parenthesis by holding the left shift key but cannot do this either.

[petrr]

I made clean install on Mojave cannot run the app at all it keeps crashing

[dpo]

No go for me either. I'm on Mojave and I'm trying to remap Caps-Lock to Ctrl-b to use as Tmux prefix. I downloaded the modification Tmux Prefix (rev 3) and enabled Tmux Prefix Mode [caps_lock as trigger key] (rev 2) and Tmux Prefix Mode [ ctrl+B as prefix ].

The Karabiner EventViewer always shows "key_down caps_lock" and "key_up caps_lock" when I press Caps-Lock. However, all it does it what Caps Lock usually does; it does not send Ctrl-b to Tmux (which is indeed my prefix).

I restarted the Mac half a dozen times, uninstalled/reinstalled, upgraded to the beta release, but still no go. For what it's worth, my config is here: https://gist.github.com/dpo/fdfd81f88d178f80ef34ab6d574fbe97.

Thanks.

[HBinswanger]

Why did they take a great, easy to use program and make it require the
incredible baroque, fussy complexity of a JSON file?!

I consider it unusable.

On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 18:18, Dominique [e-mail] wrote:

No go for me either. I'm on Mojave and I'm trying to remap Caps-Lock to
Ctrl-b to use as Tmux prefix. I downloaded the modification Tmux Prefix
(rev 3) and enabled Tmux Prefix Mode [caps_lock as trigger key] (rev 2)
and Tmux Prefix Mode [ ctrl+B as prefix ].

The Karabiner EventViewer always shows "key_down caps_lock" and "key_up
caps_lock" when I press Caps-Lock. However, all it does it what Caps Lock
usually does; it does not send Ctrl-b to Tmux (which is indeed my prefix).

I restarted the Mac half a dozen times, uninstalled/reinstalled, upgraded
to the beta release, but still no go. For what it's worth, my config is
here: https://gist.github.com/dpo/fdfd81f88d178f80ef34ab6d574fbe97.

Thanks.

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[rweng]

Hmm, so I've also had this problem on Mojave with

[2019-02-28 10:55:04.103] [warning] [grabber] virtual_hid_device_client is not connected yet. Please wait for a while.

Reinstalling helped, but now I've just restarted and the problem occurs again... I'll try reinstalling again, but maybe it's some OS X Security Problem?

EDIT

I did try to add Karabiner-Elements to System Preferences -> Security -> Accessibility first and restarted. This seemed to do the trick.

[arooni]

I stumbled on this page via google; and can confirm that @rweng's solution worked great! Added karabiner-elements manually to accessibility settings, then restarted, and now everything works great! Thanks for saving me time.

running 10.14.4

[dpo]

How does one add Karabiner-Elements to the accessibility settings?

[legel]

Thanks to all for this. I still faced issues (in my case, to disabling a stuck key), but managed to solve the problem. I've documented my approach here: https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements/issues/1863#issuecomment-500126291

[cube7707]

I had the same issue but it was resolved by making a new json file inside of the ~/.config folder since it didn't exist. To make a new json file you just create a new file with text edit and replace .txt with .json

[brandon-arnold]

rweng said:

I did try to add Karabiner-Elements to System Preferences -> Security -> Accessibility first and restarted. This seemed to do the trick.

This also did it for me, after Karbiner-Elements quit working after a recent system update. Same error in my console. Suggest a PR for Karbiner-Elements to check regularly for its privileges and prompt the user to add itself to Accessibility if not.

[matt-mcgee-roostify]

Same issue here. I resolved it following suggestions from @legel and @cube7707. There was a symlink to the .json file in .config, but it didn't seem to be working correctly (i.e. edits were not showing up in the .json). I made a new karabiner directory and placed the .json inside following @cube7707 suggestion, copying over the .json file from the symlink and it worked.

[lwouis]

Karabiner stopped working after an OS update (to 10.14.6 (18G95)). Fixed the issue by updating Karabiner to beta version.

[n8gray]

Similar issue. Updated OS to 10.14.6 and Karabiner stopped working. Added Karabiner Elements to System Preferences/Security & Privacy/Accessibility and rebooted. Problem solved!

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