Welcome to – Technology, entrepreneurship, education. January 02, 2016 I use the Microsoft Sculpt ergonomic keyboard. Since it’s made by Microsoft, it has keys laid out for Windows.

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Jun 24, 2015  Hi all, I'm using the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard with my 15' MacBook Pro Retina, and have a few weird problems: [Shift]+[v] does not work. Iskysoft pdf editor full version for mac. Typing [v] prints a lower case v, and [Shift] uppercases all other letters just fine, but [Shift]+[v] is unresponsive, nothing is output. The advanced design of Sculpt Ergonomic Mouse maximizes wrist comfort while making navigation effortless. Shaped to encourage a more natural hand, wrist, and forearm posture, Sculpt Ergonomic Mouse helps prevent the pain of repetitive stress injuries.

Left of the spacebar you have Alt, Windows, and Control, whereas a typical Mac user would expect Command, Option, Control. The names don’t match, nor does the functionality.

To reset the keys to work using typical Mac keyboard muscle memory, one would go into System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys -> Microsoft 2.4Ghz Transeiver vX.0 and swap Command and Option. However, when Apple updated OS X to 10.11.2 they broke the keyboard modifier key settings in System Preferences.

They no longer persist between sessions. If I unplug the transeiver, the keys are reset. I did my duty and, please go and submit a similar one if you’re running into this issue as well. I got tired of resetting it each time I plugged my Mac into my display with the transeiver plugged into it. So I used Karabiner, a great tool for key remapping, to swap the two. If you’re in a similar situation, here’s how you do it: • Download and install. It works on a low level, and will ask you for potentially scary permissions.

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But it’s a pretty commonly used tool, well supported, and well regarded by Mac power users. • Open the ‘private.xml’ file to enter your custom key remapping. You can find the ‘private.xml’ file by choosing the Misc & Uninstall tab. • Add the keyboard definition and the two items included below. Your entire file should look similar to: Microsoft 0x045e Sculpt 0x07a5 Remap Sculpt Alt to Command This maps the Microsoft Sculpt's ALT Key to Command. Sculpt.alt_to_command DeviceVendor::Microsoft, DeviceProduct::Sculpt --KeyToKey-- KeyCode::OPTION_L, KeyCode::COMMAND_L --KeyToKey-- KeyCode::OPTION_R, KeyCode::COMMAND_R Remap Sculpt Windows to Option This maps the Microsoft Sculpt's Windows Key to Option. Sculpt.windows_to_option DeviceVendor::Microsoft, DeviceProduct::Sculpt --KeyToKey-- KeyCode::COMMAND_L, KeyCode::OPTION_L --KeyToKey-- KeyCode::COMMAND_R, KeyCode::OPTION_R • Open Karabiner again to the main ‘Change Key’ tab and tap ‘Reload XML’, you will now be presented with two options at the top (the two items we just added to Karabiner’s options).

• Enable both options, go and test that it works • Move on happily knowing that you won’t have to wait for Apple to release an update to fix this obscure bug.