How can I simulate a SHIFT Keystroke with Keyboard Maestro?

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How can I simulate a SHIFT Keystroke with Keyboard Maestro?

I am totally new to this, and I have an international Keyboard, with the backquote key beside the shift key, I am trying to simulate the SHIFT keystroke with the backquote. I Used to use Karabiner and it worked, but I am on Sierra now :frowning:

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Simulate pressing it? Use the "Type a Keystroke" action, like this:

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It’s interesting to see just how much people use Karabiner, so many posts here trying to simulate karabiner behaviour with KM.

Whilst I am just sitting on El Captain, happy and free, waiting for Karabiner Elements. :smiley:

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I think he wants to simulate Shift with the backtick key (so that the backtick serves as another Shift for the pinky).

I just had an idea and tried it (with the ‘key down’ AppleScript), and guess what… I locked myself out once again… arrgh :bomb:

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Sorry, I can't help but laugh. Remember, the first thing you should do is create a macro that brings the key back up, and trigger it with some key that has the key down. Or put it on a timer.

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Yep, that’s exactly what I’ve done now:

delay 20
tell application "System Events"
  key up shift
  key up control
  key up command
  key up option
end tell
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I thought Karabiner Elements already works with Sierra(?)

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Exactly, this is what I am trying to do.

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Only for simple remapping. I need this before I can update.

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I tried it, and the script did not work :frowning:

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{
“profiles”: [
{
“name”: “Default profile”,
“selected”: true,
“simple_modifications”: {
“backquote”: “left_shift”
}
}
]
}

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This is not what I am trying to do actually, I want to simulate Shift with the backtick key (so that the backtick serves as another Shift )

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Have you tried it with “grave_accent” or “grave_accent_and_tilde”?

See this.

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Which is correct “Left_Shift” or “Shift_L”

{
“profiles”: [
{
“name”: “Default profile”,
“selected”: true,
“simple_modifications”: {
“grave_accent_and_tilde”: “left_shift”
}
}
]
}

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For me it works with "grave_accent_and_tilde":"left_shift".

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Did not work for me,

Can you copy the whole code that worked?

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This works:

{
  "profiles": [
    {
      "name": "Default profile",
      "selected": true,
      "simple_modifications": {
        "grave_accent_and_tilde": "left_shift"
      }
    }
  ]
}

karabiner.json.zip (731 Bytes)

File path is: ~/.karabiner.d/configuration/karabiner.json

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You are my HEROOOOOO

Can you help me with a last request?

Can I add to the file another simple modification of the

Symbol backslash () to ENTER ?

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This works for me (with both modifications):

{
  "profiles": [
    {
      "name": "Default profile",
      "selected": true,
      "simple_modifications": {
        "grave_accent_and_tilde": "left_shift",
        "backslash": "return_or_enter"
      }
    }
  ]
}

For your ISO keyboard you should probably replace "backslash" with "non_us_backslash". (Can’t test it because I don’t have an ISO keyboard here.)

You find all the usable key names here.

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Why not doing yourself a favor and get a real (ANSI) keyboard. It has everything you want :wink:

ANSI:

ISO Crap:

(Images from deskthority.net)

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