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I have a macbook pro and a keyboard meant for a PC. I want to remap some keys and, after googling around, found this:

Simulate PC keyboard on Mac

I just want a few basics:

copy paste with ctrl-C + ctrl-V

alt-tab to switch between applications (this is normally command tab on a mac)

command-option to switch between tabs on chrome

I've looked through Karabiner / KeyRemap4MacBook but can't seem to sort it out. Any advice on how to do this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

bclayman

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After 5 years of asking this question, today i have faced same issue.

so I decided to google the solution and I haven't found an answer to your question.

I kept searching until i got the solution, so I decided to get back to you and tell you what I have found out, is was too simple.

STEPS:

  1. Connect the Windows PC keyboard to the Mac as usual, either by USB or Bluetooth

  2. Pull down the  Apple menu and choose “System Preferences”

  3. Click on “Keyboard”

  4. Choose the “Keyboard” tab and then click on the “Modifier Keys” button in the lower right corner of the preference panel

  5. Choose the PC keyboard from the “Select Keyboard” dropdown menu at the top of the Modifier keys screen to insure you are modifying the proper keyboard connected to the Mac

  6. Click the dropdown next to “OPTION Key” and select “Command”

  7. Click the dropdown next to “COMMAND Key” and select “Option”

Cite : https://osxdaily.com/2018/01/31/use-windows-pc-keyboard-mac-remap-option-command-keys/

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Well done. Remapping the two keys via system preferences, keybboard, keyboard, modifier keys is the way to make a PC Keyboard behave like a Mac Keyboard. I just bought a PC keyboard for my Mac and was very frustrated that none of the possible key combinations (CTRL-Tab, Windows key-Tab, and Alt-Tab) would bring up the oblong picture of all the running programs. Simply swapping keys Command and Option got things back the way they were with a Mac keyboard. Now to flip programs I hit Alt-Tab, bearing in mind that the "Alt" is located where the "Command" key is on the Mac keyboard, and vice versa. The old copy and paste key-combinations of CTRL-C and CTRL-V, are now in their usual places, even if I am in fact hitting Alt-C and Alt-V.

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