`hidutil` stopped working on macOS 14.2

Hello, I encounted the same problem, but I solved it successfully using hidutil.

STEPS:

1. remove the usb of keyboard on the mac
2. restart the computer
3. the hidutil does not work right now
4. plug the usb of our keyboard, then the hidutil will write the config to macos immediately in 1 second.

I think that hidutil bonded with certain device(my keyboard), so when I plug usb in, hidutil writed the config to computer. But if I donot plug the usb in(or donot remove the usb when I restart computer), the write event do not happen, looks like that macos do not allow modify the keyboard on macbook, but allow modify the keyboard third-party

Did you try the custom layout mentioned in my post of dec 12?

Sorry, the link I gave earlier was wrong. It should be this.

yaroslav280 wrote: It always rebinds a key on my international Apple Magic Keyboard to a convenient one to match with my us keyboard laptop.

What are those keys exactly?

Another good place to ask this kind of question is

https://apple.stackexchange.com/

yaroslav280 wrote:

The use case is to make window switch consistent on both US built in and international external keyboards.

See if the custom layout in the link I gave in my last post will do that (not sure myself).

Hi Tom,

I have the same need for swapping the `Keyboard Delete Forward, 0x4C` with `Keyboard \ and |, 0x31` and then swapping `Keyboard \ and |, 0x31` to the `Keyboard Right Alt, 0xE6`. I used to do it with this command until 14.2 as well.

```

hidutil property --set '{"UserKeyMapping":

  [{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000031,

   "HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x70000004c},

   {"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x7000000e6,

   "HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x700000031}]

}'

```

I'm on a work laptop that restricts apps so I cannot download karabiner, so do you please mind sharing/showing me how to create a custom layout with these swaps as well? I'd very much appreciate it.

Thanks!

The layout looks OK, but dead keys stop working.

How can one grab the US International keyboard and perform the same modification, preserving the dead key functionality?

Can you explain how to do it, what are the commands/script/procedure to generate a new layout?

tofran wrote:

The layout looks OK, but dead keys stop working.

Which dead keys exactly?

If you are talking about US International PC, that is a different layout.

To make these things you use Ukelele

https://software.sil.org/ukelele/

The only solution I found is the usage of "British -PC" keyboard mapping. But that is not a perfect solution because the @, #, and ~ keys are in different places.

Better to wait for Apple's feedback on this issue.

The thing is that the layout from the "Others" section is not considered as an ABC (non-removable). So looks like I have one more language because the ABC can not be replaced with this one. Also, the Caps-lock language switch does not work as expected.

Don't you know if I can change existing layouts from "English" section or move your custom layout to "English" section?

mikeldpl wrote:

Don't you know if I can change existing layouts from "English" section or move your custom layout to "English" section?

This version should go into the English section, but I don't think you can have a custom layout as the only latin keyboard item on your input sources list. This one should also do the caps lock thing with non-Latin keyboards. It is a .bundle file instead of .keylayout, which has more options.

How can I do this for other keys? I am having a similar issue, as I use a German keyboard (QWERTZ) and used the hidutil command to swap the Z and Y keys:

hidutil property --set '{"UserKeyMapping":[
{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x70000001D,
"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x70000001C},
{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x70000001C,
"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x70000001D}
]}'

Thanks!

Thank you for that solution! It worked for me as well

The only drawback is that MacOS won't let you remove the ABC (default) keyboard in exchange with this one. So if someone who already has 2 keyboard layouts like me wants to add your layout it needs to be the third keyboard layout which becomes a nuisance (switching between 3+ layouts)

Hidutil now needs sudo permissions:

sudo hidutil property --set '{"UserKeyMapping": [{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc": 0x700000064, "HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst": 0x700000035}]}'

If you use a launch agent plist file, then add this line:

<string>sudo</string>

above

<string>/usr/bin/hidutil</string>

To remove touchid/password on execution of hidutil with sudo privileges, you need to create a file and open it with this command and location:

sudo $EDITOR /etc/sudoers.d/hidutil

Paste in it the result of this command:

echo "$(whoami) ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: sha256:$(shasum -a 256 $(which hidutil) | cut -d " " -f 1) $(which hidutil)"

Save it.