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As someone learning German, I wanted to avoid learning a new keyboard layout (German QWERTZ) as well as the language. Thus in this blog post, I go into the details of how to get German umlauts on a US keyboard layout across Linux, MacOS and Windows. A little background Like most Polish computer users, I grew up with the, awkwardly named, Polish (programmers) layout. It is effectively a English (US) with the Alt+Gr (a.
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Linux: How to make your own keyboard layout
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A Hyper Key is an extra modifier key that can be used to add extra keyboard shortcuts in tools such as hammerspoon. The most common method on a Mac was to use your Caps Lock key as your Hyper key using a tool called Karabiner Elements. The issue with Karabiner though is that it is a kernel extension and keeps running into problems with newer OS X releases. If your only use case for Karabiner is to remap the Caps Lock key - you may be able to use the OS X native hidutil utility to achieve the same result.
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