Having your keyboard layout suddenly changed is not a fun experience. Especially if you use the key very frequently whose location has been switched. I recently had the unfortunate experience of having a dead MacBook. But luckily, I got another MacBook from a brother on loan. The problem with this MacBook is that it has UK keyboard layout. I’m not used to the ISO/UK layout. A shorter shift on the left and enter key being in a completely different realm was difficult enough, when I noticed, the (`~) key was not beside 1 which is what I’m used to. But the key was occupied with a key that I think should be retired, especially because, macOS has excellent support for symbols, and (§±) can easily be input with option + 6 and option + + key combination. For these reasons, I was getting super annoyed. And decided to swap out “§” with “`”. After searching for a while, I came across an application named Karabiner.

I knew using this app I could switch the keys, but I didn’t know what the keys are called. So, after a lot of trial and error, I found that § is called, “non_us_blackslash”. So, this blog is basically, for me if I ever need to do this again xD Also, after installing Karabiner the fn key is now called the “globe” key.