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Someone on Oct 2, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Karabiner – Easy Keyboard Remapping for OS X

System Preferences => Change Keyboard Type… gives an UI that directs you to press a few keys that help detect your keyboard layout. That has worked fine for me (N=1) when adding a Dell keyboard to a Mac Mini.

I think that UI was added for the Mac Mini, as it was the first Mac sold without keyboard ("bring your own keyboard and mouse")

btgeekboy on Oct 3, 2016 | [–]

Doing that, plus swapping Cmd + Opt in System Preferences, is all I need to use a standard PC keyboard on a Mac. Works great.

izacus on Oct 3, 2016 | [–]

Detection doesn't help if the OS doesn't include the layout at all. :/

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