KeyRemap4MacBook

• KeyRemap4MacBook-5.1.0.tar.gz

You can access repository from http://hg.pqrs.org/KeyRemap4MacBook/

You can also checkout using Mercurial

hg clone http://hg.pqrs.org/KeyRemap4MacBook/

The Latest Code (tar.gz)

1. Install Xcode
2. Extract Source Code
3. Type following command in Terminal.app

   % make clean all
   

Sample Diff: add delete2forwarddele

(1) Extract a Source code.

(2) Edit the checkbox.xml file.

• files/prefpane/checkbox.xml

(3) Generate the header files.

% cd src/core/kext
% make

(4) Edit a C++ source code.

• src/core/kext/remap.cpp

(5) Build kext.

% cd src/core/kext
% make

(6) Reload kext. Then, enable the remapping by sysctl command, and test it.

% cd src/core/kext
% make reload
% sudo sysctl -w keyremap4macbook.remap.delete2forwarddelete=1

(7) If test has finished, make a package and install it.

% make
% open KeyRemap4MacBook-*.pkg

(8) If installation has finished, close the system preferences panel to update a list of sysctl.

(9) Completed!! Please send a patch to me.

To investigate a key code, turn on debug mode. Type the following command in Terminal.app

sudo sysctl -w keyremap4macbook.debug=1

Then, Type the following command in Terminal.app

sudo tail -f /var/log/system.log

Apr 7 22:34:15 rapeseed kernel[0]: caught hid event type 12 flags 0x0 key 55 charCode 0 charSet 0 origCharCode 0 origCharSet 0 kbdType 37
Apr 7 22:34:15 rapeseed kernel[0]: sending hid event type 12 flags 0x0 key 59 charCode 0 charSet 0 origCharCode 0 origCharSet 0 kbdType 37