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Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later.
https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
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Micrsoft Surface Keyboard not appearing in devices list #2869

Open picturesandimages opened 2 years ago

picturesandimages commented 2 years ago

I recently purchased a microsoft surface keyboard, on the understanding I could use karabiner to remap it and use it to go between my PC and my macbook. However, it doesn't appear in the devices list. When I initially installed karabiner, the keyboard wasn't properly mapped but did type and did appear in the devices list. I followed the pop-up and uninstalled drivers, and have reinstalled drivers and it went away. I have also enabled karabiner_grabber and karabiner_observer in security and privacy settings.

Given it did appear and now doesn't I'm really hoping there's a fix. I have also installed beta updates.

Thank you for any help you can give

MuhammedZakir commented 2 years ago

When you mention "devices list", do you mean devices (drop-down) list in "Simple modification" tab or the list in "Devices" tab?

picturesandimages commented 2 years ago

The devices tab where I can also see my mouse and regular built in keyboard. Thanks for getting back to me too

On Sun, 31 Oct 2021, 16:27 Muhammed Zakir, @.***> wrote:

When you mention "devices list", do you mean devices (drop-down) list in "Simple modification" tab or the list in "Devices" tab?

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MuhammedZakir commented 2 years ago

Is it wired or wireless? Does Log tab show anything related to this keyboard?

You may also try list-keyboards[1] . Running it (in terminal) will show product names of all keyboards. It is a helper utility of another app called KMonad.

P.S. You may have to execute chmod u+x path/to/list-keyboards-<arch> to run the program.

[1] Download from here - https://github.com/MuhammedZakir/kmonad/actions/runs/1304750441. Feel free to check the code and the workflow file before executing it.

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