Inability to actually quit/disable Karabiner makes it a malware

[raegen]

Are you people for real? It's beyond me, how does this happen? It didn't cross your mind it might be needed? You start multiple persistent processes and you don't provide a way to disable them except uninstalling? The specific problem: it is NOT stable. There are critical issues that break usage of keyboard completely (stuck keys, complete unresponsiveness etc) so I want to only use it in contexts where the usage will not cause those issues, but see, I cannot, because there's no option to do so. And no, removing the bindings/changing profiles doesn't help, because it's still running.

[tekezo]

Basically, if you terminate karabiner_console_user_server in this way, the rest processes will not affect the system. https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/docs/manual/operation/quit/

The rest processes which are running after quit Karabiner-Elements, are opened by launchd. (List of processes: https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/docs/help/advanced-topics/security/ )

So, you can stop these process by launchctl as follows.

sudo launchctl bootout system /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.pqrs.Karabiner-DriverKit-VirtualHIDDeviceClient.plist
sudo launchctl bootout system /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.pqrs.karabiner.karabiner_grabber.plist
sudo launchctl bootout system /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.pqrs.karabiner.karabiner_observer.plist

However, when Karabiner-Elements is not that stable as you said, it is likely that the issue is caused by a hardware problem or compatibility with other applications, so I think it would be better to uninstall Karabiner-Elements first and see how it goes.

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