It was added by Ranmocy Sheng and compiled by Hugo Tunius. One of the pull requests you can see on Karabiner Elements is the addition of hyper as one of the choices you can select in the Karabiner Elements key modification list. I prefer the original Hyper key which I can set inside the app preferences. It’s a great option if you’re keen to familiar yourself with HammerSpoon configurations. It’s a temporary remedy for the lack of Hyper Key, but it’s not the end-solution.įew weeks after that, Brett shared his own take on using HammerSpoon to rebuild Hyper Key in macOS Sierra. The first solution I encountered was using Keyboard Maestro and Karabiner Elements. There are some efforts from the macOS community to restore the Hyper key, but none of them can replicate the original function perfectly. You can follow the tutorial from Brett Terpstra to enable the key on your Mac. Update Karabiner Elements has officially added the support to Hyper Key feature. You can remap the Caps Lock key to other functions like Backspace or Space, but it lacks one crucial feature that popularizes the utility: the Hyper key - the combination of Command-Shift-Option-Control modifier keys. The early version of the Karabiner Elements only supports single key mapping. Karabiner Elements is the official release developed by Takayama Fumihiko to address the limitations of macOS Sierra. I spent a couple of weeks searching for a solution, and finally, found Karabiner Elements that restores the Hyper Key back to macOS Sierra. The lack of Karabiner support means that I can no longer use the Hyper key to trigger any shortcuts I configured in OS X El Capitan. Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later.Karabiner has stopped working on macOS Sierra. While it is very powerful, the developers are absolutely doing some great work, and it is an app beloved of many of the Internet’s more prominent Mac users, including yourself, some of the issues that seem to make it through put it in the ‘too risky’ bucket for me. The issue log on GitHub also makes for very interesting reading. I don’t want those headaches any more, and this sort of app can definitely affect system-stability, which is presumably what the OP has experienced. I remember some of the really low-level stuff I used to use at work on Windows that IBM developed in partnership with Microsoft, and even that caused headaches in the real world a lot of the time. I’ve got so many ways to trigger so many things (often multiple ways), that the cognitive load of adding a hyper-key with Karabiner and just the fundamental need over the hundred of options have just never taken me down that path.Īs it happens, I also *really* don’t like the idea of something poking around at that level without it being part of the OS or being developed in part with Apple. I rely on my more traditional key combinations, Alfred workflows, Keyboard Maestro palettes, a Stream Deck and/or Touch Bar (Better Touch Tool FTW!). Everything else I’ve ever seen always piggy-backs the work being done and has Karabiner as a prerequisite. The thing is, Karabiner is doing some low-level wizardry, and it is the only thing that I’ve ever come across that goes down to that level to do this sort of thing. That’s the nearest option I could find, and I agree, it isn’t a great match, but then I don’t think anything can be. The only issue for me would be that this method is not quite the hyper key:
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