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Macos detected wrong keyboard layout

I'm using an external Logitech keyboard with a German layout but MacOS wrongly identified it as the '<' key (normally next to the left shift key) and the '^' key are switched in position, which is very annoying as a programmer.


I find proposed solutions for this problem by restarting the keyboard detection wizard but to do this I would have to delete the 'com.apple.keyboardtype.plist' file in Library/preferences/ but can't find it on my MacBook.


I also can't find any other way to change to the correct layout (The correct layout is not an option when trying to add a new input layout)

MacBook Air

Posted on Jan 20, 2023 1:59 AM

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Posted on Jan 20, 2023 4:16 AM

Your keyboard is exactly the layout that I want to have for my external keyboard. But I only get this shown in the keyboard viewer:

And if I press on the physical key, next to the left shift, which does not exist in my keyboard viewer, I get a '^'.

I want to have the layout 'your' layout.


Side note: My internal MacBook Air Keyboard has the correct identified and physical ('your') layout. It is only the external one, that is wrong.

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Jan 20, 2023 4:16 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Your keyboard is exactly the layout that I want to have for my external keyboard. But I only get this shown in the keyboard viewer:

And if I press on the physical key, next to the left shift, which does not exist in my keyboard viewer, I get a '^'.

I want to have the layout 'your' layout.


Side note: My internal MacBook Air Keyboard has the correct identified and physical ('your') layout. It is only the external one, that is wrong.

Jan 20, 2023 5:15 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thank you for the link. I read it again and apparently I was looking in the wrong preferences folder to delete the '/Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist' file.

After disconnecting the external keyboard, deleting the file, rebooting and reattaching my external keyboard the wizard was shown again and I could select ISO Europe as layout. Seems to be fixed now. :)


Thank you both for your help!

Macos detected wrong keyboard layout

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