Karabiner Edition on Capslock

Install and Hyper basics

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Capslock Enhancement V3 current targets macOS and Karabiner-Elements. There is nothing else to install: the configuration is a set of complex-modification rules that Karabiner interprets, so nothing new runs in the background and nothing is compiled on your machine.

Note

This guide was verified with Karabiner-Elements 16.1.0 in August 2026, whose support matrix covers macOS 13 Ventura through macOS 27 on Intel and Apple silicon. Check the official site for the current release.

Navigation, deletion, and mouse

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The pink and brown areas around the home row carry the layout's most frequent operations. The navigation and deletion families together carry 114 of the 282 mappings in V3.1, so this is the part of the layout worth learning first.

Important

Unless stated otherwise, every chord on this page assumes ✱ Hyper is held. "+ ⌘" therefore means ✱ with ⌘ plus the listed key.

H J K L move left, down, up, and right, exactly as in Vim. Directly above them, U I O P extend the same idea to whole pages and lines: Page Up, Home, End, Page Down.

Windows and developer workflows

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The layout dedicates several colour-coded zones to the actions that interrupt a developer's flow most often: switching windows, launching tools, sending terminal signals, parking text somewhere, and typing punctuation.

Important

Every chord on this page assumes ✱ Hyper is held.

Window control

⇥ Q W A S form the azure block on the left of the keyboard. They close and cycle things, from a single tab up to the whole login session.

System functions and reference

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This page collects the mappings and project details you look up rather than learn in sequence.

Function and system keys

F1–F12 behave as standard function keys by default; hold Hyper to send their media or system functions instead. The cyan block covers the whole top row plus the screenshot keys.

Karabiner-Elements 15.1 and later follow System Settings › Keyboard › Keyboard Shortcuts… › Function Keys
Key	Hyper action	+ `⌘`
`	Area screenshot to clipboard	Area screenshot to file
`F1` / `F2`	Brightness down / up	Desktop 1 / 2
`F3`	Mission Control	Desktop 3
`F4`	Spotlight	—
`F5` / `F6`	Keyboard light down / up	—
`F7` / `F8` / `F9`	Previous / play-pause / next	—
`F10` / `F11` / `F12`	Mute / volume down / volume up	—
`F13`	Full screenshot to clipboard	Full screenshot to file
`F14`	Screenshot menu	Legacy Touch Bar screenshot
`F15`	Play / pause	—

The screenshot keys follow one convention: the plain Hyper chord puts the capture on the clipboard, and adding ⌘ writes it to a file on the desktop.

Configurator

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Pick a control plane from the table or by clicking the left-side modifiers, then click any key to see the Karabiner rule behind it. Keys that launch an application can be renamed. Your edits stay in this page until you copy or download the JSON; nothing is sent anywhere.

The interactive configurator runs only on the web page: it shows all sixteen control planes, lets you rename the application shortcuts, and exports a JSON file for Karabiner-Elements. Current configuration (3.1.0): capslock.json

Karabiner Edition on Capslock

Install and Hyper basics

Navigation, deletion, and mouse

The navigator block

Windows and developer workflows

Window control

System functions and reference

Function and system keys

Configurator