deskthority

This is something I've tried to do for a while, yet I haven't figured out how. I'm currently using a Model M (ISO- Spanish layout) and I'd like to get the layout right. OSX does not let me use the <> key right next to the left shift key, and types ç instead whenever I press it.
Besides from that, I've also been trying to remap the Print Screen, Insert, Home... (the group of keys above the arrow keys) unsuccessfully, and I was wondering if any of you has achieved such a feat.
The native Keyboard setup tool does not recognize the keyboard, and the only thing I've managed to get right is remapping the function keys to their original use through Karabiner.

Anyway, thanks in advance for your support

This may be too obvious but when you plugged in that keyboard for the first time, did OS X ask you to identify it by pressing the key to the right of the left shift key?

If you didn't see that dialogue, just click the "Change Keyboard Type..." button in the keyboard preferences.
In case you don't see that button, you can force it to show up by deleting your keyboard preferences file and rebooting.

sudo rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist

The funny thing is when I tried this just now, I ended up with the same issue you described.
I finally managed to get things back to normal by actually pressing the ^ instead of the < key in the change keyboard dialogue. The keyboard was then identified as ISO/IEC 9995 which seems to be right.

Also, are you currently using Spanish as your input source? I noticed that there also is an Input source called Spanish - ISO. Maybe that is worth a try if the above doesn't help.


I managed to remap the Pause key with Karabiner on OS X 10.11. However, the current version of Karabiner is not compatible with macOS Sierra (10.12).

There is a preview version called Karabiner-Elements that runs on 10.12 but that allows only for very basic rebinding. I guess, there will be a new Karabiner release with 10.12 compatibility in the future.

This may be too obvious but when you plugged in that keyboard for the first time, did OS X ask you to identify it by pressing the key to the right of the left shift key?

Yes, it did!

I finally managed to get things back to normal by actually pressing the ^ instead of the < key in the change keyboard dialogue. The keyboard was then identified as ISO/IEC 9995 which seems to be right.

I've tried pressing the ^` key and nothing seems to happen. Osx (Sierra) just tells me for me to wait while it identifies the keyboard, which takes forever (and does not identify).
Btw, have you got any idea why pressing the ^ key instead of the <> one worked for you?

Anyway, thank you for your answer Yuubin!

Hm, whenever I previously changed keyboards I just pressed the '<' key. I'm not sure what went wrong this time or why pressing '^' works.

There is a tool called Ukelele that let's you create custom keyboard layouts for macOS. I haven't used it myself and still think it shouldn't be necessary to go to such lengths but it may be useful if all else fails:

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page ... id=ukelele

z3ta wrote:

This may be too obvious but when you plugged in that keyboard for the first time, did OS X ask you to identify it by pressing the key to the right of the left shift key?

Yes, it did!

I finally managed to get things back to normal by actually pressing the ^ instead of the < key in the change keyboard dialogue. The keyboard was then identified as ISO/IEC 9995 which seems to be right.

I've tried pressing the ^` key and nothing seems to happen. Osx (Sierra) just tells me for me to wait while it identifies the keyboard, which takes forever (and does not identify).
Btw, have you got any idea why pressing the ^ key instead of the <> one worked for you?

Anyway, thank you for your answer Yuubin!