Post #2141392

2026-05-06 12:10 UTC

Is it just me, or is the tilde placement on a keyboard using MacOS especially cumbersome? Why not just map it to where my logitech keyboard actually displays it? Same for the pipe symbol, both of which I had to search far and wide for to actually find how to produce (it's opt+n for ~ and opt+7 for |, in case you were wondering). · https://str.ms/n-tilde-and-pipe

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@_nd_@fnordon.de 2026-05-06 12:45

@richard@hemmer.land alternative to making layouts yourself: use https://github.com/adrelino/mac-german-ibm-keylayout

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@_nd_@fnordon.de 2026-05-06 12:42

@richard@hemmer.land I like it that Option+Key *always* produces a character, and not just for a few keys. ~ as a dead key over the n so that I can type ñ is really nice. The backslash needs quite some modifiers, but the / rotating counter clockwise ⇧7=/ ⌥7=| ⌥⇧7=\ is a cute mnemonic. [] and {} are next to each other, also nice. Hint: the keyboard viewer shows realtime assignment, including the current modifiers: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp1015/mac

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@_nd_@fnordon.de 2026-05-06 12:42

@richard@hemmer.land If you would like something completely different, you can modify keyboard mapping with https://software.sil.org/ukelele/

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@Exellent@chaos.social 2026-05-06 13:09

@richard@hemmer.land That's the cursed German layout. Use enUS and it starts to make sense... Also brackets and all the other shenanigans 😉

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