In systems I frequently remote desktop to, it is a huge pain removed when I access them from my Mac. I found it useful to instal this in corporate systems as well. Since then I have shared it with a number of friends and coworkers and they have all used it "happily ever after". I have created this layout about 3 years ago and never had the need to change it.
MAC REMAP KEYBOARD INSTALL
Install the executable file for your system (x86, amd64 or ia64).In your Windows VM, download the PT_Mac layout from here.This is how I solved it, and I decided to share the files so no one else had to remap the keyboard again. Apple offers you the idea of remaping the keyboard yourself ( link to Apple Support).
I however advise against it - it gets tricky sometimes.
MAC REMAP KEYBOARD SOFTWARE
Your virtualization software will typically allow you to remap keys.In the Portuguese layout they switch positions in a rotating schema for the Brazilian layout, the difference is just huge! Notice the difference in the keys close to the ENTER key. The layout is closer to the Portuguese PC layout than the Brazilian, but it's still different from both ( source): Apple uses the same layout for Portugal and Brazil. When you switch to a Mac, the keyboard layout changes a bit again. Open Keyboard settings in System Preferences Navigate to System Preferences > Keyboard Settings to open the Keyboard Settings pane. You can apply mapping to all your keyboards. On the right side, click on Remap a key button. Launch the PowerToys and click the Keyboard Manager. If you are in Brazil then the PC keyboard looks like this: Remap Keyboard lets you modify your macOS keyboard layout by changing the behavior of each key to work like another. Download the Microsoft tool, PowerToys, and install it on your PC. Yes! If you never noticed, the layout for Portuguese keyboards varies a bit between a PC and a Mac.Ī PC keyboard for PT-PT (Portuguese/Portugal) looks like this ( source): you could remap Caps Lock to a Shift key Remap more than one key to one single key - e.g. Another app commonly used to remap MacOS keys is Ukelele. Close SharpKeys and either log out (and back in) or reboot to enforce the new mappings Things that SharpKeys will do: Map an entire key to any other key - e.g. How do I map my menu/application key to be Command instead.
To remap keys on macOS see the answer on Karabiner quit working in Sierra. When that happened, I immediately noticed that some keys in my MacBook did not match the characters they produced - noticeably some combinations such as, * and +, and some accent keys. 1 Xmodmap only works for X11 applications, the ones youve listed for sure are not X11 applications. As you know our wonderful Service Studio still does not run natively on Mac, so I had to resort to a Windows VM.
MAC REMAP KEYBOARD HOW TO
See also this solution which explains how to use Automator instead of launchctl.I would like to share with you a small utility I created some years ago when I first started using a Mac. The file needs to be registered with a one-off execution of the following command: launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ Remapping § to ` and ± to ~ worked on my Mac (running OS X 10.15.6) without additional software with the following code snippet.