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Happy New Year everyone!

MBP 14 M3 Pro with all recent updates. US English layout.

This all started because I wanted to map LOpt + ijkl to arrow keys so that I didn't have to move my right hand from the home row to navigate. I want to set this for the built-in keyboard and for my external Qwertykeys QK100.

I did a little research which pointed me to Karabiner-Elements, so I installed that via brew.

Not only have I not figured out how to configure Karabiner properly, but ever since, my external keyboard's tilde/backtick key has been producing §/± instead, in spite of all visible System Settings being US English/ANSI. The internal keyboard works fine and produces `/~. I even uninstalled Karabiner, since that was when the problem started, however, I'm still stuck on §/±.

Can someone please help me restore my external keyboard's tilde key so I can get on with trying to figure out how to remap ijkl as optional arrow keys?

EDIT: I've reinstalled Karabiner and tried to remap non_us_backslash to grave_accent_and_tilde to no avail. I still get §/±.

I've also noticed that the keyboard only does this in Mac mode. I've ensured that the keyboard's software correctly maps the key to grave accent/tilde, however, switching back to "Win" mode resolves the problem. Unfortunately, it also deprives me of the correct modifier keys, so I'd like to keep Mac mode on. I've reached out to the mfct to see if they can help, but since it only occurs on MacOS I'm not sure if it's a problem on their side.

EDIT2: My current workaround is to use the QK100 software to map `/~ to NUBS and then use Karabiner to map NUBS to grave accent/~. This has restored the normal functionality but I'd really like to know what the problem is.

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  • Karabiner has support & troubleshooting docs as well as ways to request support via opening a github issue. Have tried either, or both, of these? Commented Jan 2 at 15:25
  • § and ± are the keys that I get on my keyboard with British English keyboard chosen if I press the key below the escape key. § and ± is also what is printed on the keys. So for some reason the OS is using British English keyboard settings (no idea what US English does, might be the same). iOS expects a keyboard to report the position of the key that was pressed. I have a backslash left of the return key, and a key with a back accent and tilde to the right of the left shift key. Commented Aug 30 at 12:57

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I encountered the same issue and managed to resolve it by adjusting a setting in Karabiner-Elements.

Even if your macOS system keyboard type is set to ANSI, it’s important to check what Karabiner-Elements has set for the virtual keyboard type. In my case, the mismatch caused unexpected behavior.

Go to Karabiner-Elements → Virtual Keyboard and ensure that the keyboard type is set to ANSI there as well.

This fixed the problem for me. You might want to double-check that setting if you haven’t already.

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I encountered the same issue, but what resolves it is going to Devices, selecting my keyboard, and then disabling Modify events.

Screenshot of the Devices section of the Karabiner-Elements Settings

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