{"id":536,"date":"2016-04-28T01:27:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T16:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/using-a-japanese-microsoft-natural-ergonomic-keyboard-4000-with-osx-el-capitan\/"},"modified":"2016-04-28T01:27:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T16:27:27","slug":"using-a-japanese-microsoft-natural-ergonomic-keyboard-4000-with-osx-el-capitan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/using-a-japanese-microsoft-natural-ergonomic-keyboard-4000-with-osx-el-capitan\/","title":{"rendered":"Using a Japanese Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 with OSX El Capitan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently got a new compute for work.  It is a MacBook Pro, and will be replacing a linux desktop I&#8217;ve been using.  I&#8217;ve been a longtime user of a Japanese Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 v1.0 keyboard.  I want to keep using this keyboard.  Unfortunately, El Capitan doesn&#8217;t really recognise the keyboard.  It works, but something things are missing.  Primarily, the \u534a\u89d2\/\u5168\u89d2 (hankaku \/ zenkaku, usually it toggles Japanese input on and off) button doesn&#8217;t do anything.  Also, a few other keys (primarily \u7121\u5909\u63db &#8211; muhenkan &#8211; and a few other Japanese specific keys) do nothing.<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t work for me.  I really want to be able to switch on Japanese input with key in the upper-left hand corner of the keyboard under escape.  I also want to map the \u7121\u5909\u63db muhenkan key to another command key, because that is a natural place to contort my thumb for the command strokes.  By default the windows key acts as a command key (that is ok, but not in a useful position) and I always map the caps lock key to a control key for emacs usage.  I like that Apple has that as a simple setting in the keyboard settings.  <\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>Some other buttons on the right of the keyboard (\u5909\u63db henkan and \u30ab\u30bf\u30ab\u30ca \u3072\u3089\u304c\u306a katakana\/hiragana button) don&#8217;t work, but I don&#8217;t use them and can&#8217;t think of anything useful to remap them to.  <\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>This was really bothering me, but luckily someone out there in the world has had the same problem, and developed Karabiner (https:\/\/pqrs.org\/osx\/karabiner\/) a tool for key remapping, and sell (https:\/\/pqrs.org\/osx\/karabiner\/seil.html.ja) a tool to let my keyboard actually send key codes for some of those keys.  <\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>This site http:\/\/qiita.com\/bibio\/items\/b45faf78eeae5ab163d6 clued me in that perhaps setting things up to send key codes would be possible.  Karabiner has a nice key event viewer that I could use to see that there were no key codes when I pressed the keys.  Seil  has some options to enable those keys.  And with a few quick clicks, my keyboard is working in a reasonable way now.  Yay!<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fugutabetai\/26593435712\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Karabiner_prefs\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1653\/26593435712_16fb01c584_b.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"642\" alt=\"Karabiner_prefs\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fugutabetai\/26593435752\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Seil_prefs\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1518\/26593435752_c27b659eba_b.jpg\" width=\"668\" height=\"622\" alt=\"Seil_prefs\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently got a new compute for work. It is a MacBook Pro, and will be replacing a linux desktop I&#8217;ve been using. I&#8217;ve been a longtime user of a Japanese Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 v1.0 keyboard. I want to keep using this keyboard. Unfortunately, El Capitan doesn&#8217;t really recognise the keyboard. It works, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}