OBSOLETED

Karabiner is obsoleted on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later.
Please use Karabiner-Elements.

Karabiner

Karabiner is a powerful utility for keyboard customization.

• Change the key mappings (For example, "Change Right Option to Enter")
• Change the key repeat speed.
• The revival of a lost NumPad key (Fn+jkluio789…)
• Features for more efficient operations. (Emacs Mode, Vi Mode, Mouse Keys Mode, ...)

Prior to version 9.3.0, Karabiner was called KeyRemap4MacBook.

Please use Karabiner-Elements on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later.

We made Karabiner-Elements from scratch due to kernel architecture changes in macOS Sierra.

Useful links

• Latest build: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
• Mirror: http://tekezo.github.io/pqrs.org/
• Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/osx-karabiner
• List of key names: https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner/blob/master/src/bridge/generator/keycode/data/KeyCode.data

You can also get the latest stable release package via fixed URL.

$ curl -L -O https://pqrs.org/latest/karabiner-latest.dmg

System requirements

Karabiner works for all Mac products, including the MacBook series, iMac, Mac mini, and Mac Pro, with the requirement that the product runs OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) or higher, up until MacOS 10.12 (Sierra), which is not supported.

• If you require Karabiner for macOS 10.12, please use Karabiner Elements.
• If you require Karabiner for OS X 10.6 - 10.8, please use KeyRemap4MacBook 8.4.0.
• If you require Karabiner for OS X 10.4 - 10.5, please use KeyRemap4MacBook 5.1.0.

How to build

System requirements:

• OS X 10.11+
• Xcode 8+
• Command Line Tools for Xcode
• Boost 1.56.0+ (header-only) http://www.boost.org/

Please install Boost into /opt/local/include/boost. (eg. /opt/local/include/boost/version.hpp)

Step 1: Getting source code

Download the source to master.tar.gz in the current directory, this can be re-executed to restart a cancelled download.

curl -OLC - https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner/archive/master.tar.gz

Extract the master.tar.gz file to "Karabiner-master" and delete the tar.gz file

tar -xvzf master.tar.gz && rm master.tar.gz

Step 2: Building a package

cd Karabiner-master
make

The make script will create a redistributable Karabiner-VERSION.dmg in the current directory.

Note: The build may fail if you have changed any environment variables or if you have modified scripts in the /usr/bin locations. Use a clean environment (new account) if this is the case.