Sunday 3 November 2019

macos - Can't Type Tilde character in Mac OS X


Hi this is a new problem that I did not have a few weeks ago.


I have a Logitech Illuminated Keyboard running on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).


The problem is that I cannot type a tilde. Instead when I press the tilde I get this character:


§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§

I cannot for the life of me figure this out, except that I vaguely remember I can asked to redetect the Mac keyboard layout for this keyboard and I think i chose the wrong one.


Now I get this weird character when pressing tilde. How can I fix this? Or how can I redetect this keyboard layout? Thanks.



Answer



Don't know if you are still reading this but if you download a program called Ukelele, you can make custom keyboard maps.


Then you need to put the keyboard map into ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts/, log off and then back in.


Once you have done this you can choose your custom keyboard layout and you will be able to use the ~ key without any problem (I'm using a Logitech illuminated keyboard using the default Logitech-UK keymap that comes with Ukelele and everything works).


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