Ukelele

i have an issue. my (physical) keyboard have 'menu / application' key (it's only for windows keyboard layout). can i switch to modifier key ?

Save as... doesn't work. I deleted one saved file and wanted to resave it as a bundle.... I was lost and 1 h work to. Crap GUI programming here.

It's a wonderful little app helping enormously to customize the keyboard mainly for layouts with uncommon diacritics. Thanks a lot!

I've discovered Ukelele only a few months ago and I use it exclusively for replacing the coma by a dot, on French numeric keypads. I've been doing this on every Mac I've owned for 20 years or so with Keyboard Maestro and the likes, with some side effects (delay). Thanks Ukelele! :-)

How can I map a key to insert a thinspace [ ] ? I teried dragging 2008 from Unicode on Show Symbols, but it doesn't work…

Nice program, but right now unusable, since it tells me "The document xx couldn't be saved. You don't have permission." I have an iMac 27" with High Sierra OS and don't understand why I don't have permission to my own, private computer. Could anyone help? I really need a keyboard layout editor!

Very useful tool for creating custom keyboard layouts. I was looking for such kind of software as I often use special symbols and now my work is pretty faster as I do not need to search every single symbol somewhere. Hats off for the developer and million thanks!

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I'm a heavy "vi" user, and Ukelele provides the simplest, lightest-weight way I know for moving the frequently used Esc key to its rightful position (where grave accent is located on non-UNIX keyboards). Oh, the conniptions and money I used to go through with other "solutions", just for that simple key swap! (With Mac OS X's built-in keyboard modifier keys facility, all of my vi woes were resolved.)

What a great update, thank you so much for keeping this unique program up-to-date and accessible!

Does anyone know how to remap a regular key to a SHIFT key? I inadvertently bought a pre-owned 2011 Macbook Pro (2.53Ghz i5, OS 10.8.5, 4Gb RAM) with an EU/UK keyboard. It works great otherwise, but I cannot manage typing as fast and accurately as usual with a left SHIFT key so tiny--especially since dislocating my left little finger. I downloaded Ukelele and remapped the "capital A with the accent" key into an additional RETURN key, solving the problem with the minuscule EU RETURN key and so many mistypes of it. I've even tried looking up the unicode for the shift key, but it literally will type the U+ etc. numbers, and NOT turn it into a shift key. It says in the manual that "we don't modify modifier keys" or something like that. But I don't want to modify IT, I just want to make another key into a shift key the same way I did with the return key. Also, but not as important, is there any way I can add a key without having to start from scratch with a blank keyboard? On the EU keyboard there's an eject key next to F12. I want to make it into the so sensible DELETE FORWARD key. I'm wanted to attach a screenshot of my modified keyboard but there's no option here I can see. I used the Ukelele Dvorak layout to start with, I believe. (I've used the Dvorak layout for over 20 years now and never get carpal tunnel or tendinitis anymore.) Any help (esp. from the Dev--I will send you $--seriously!) would greatly be appreciated. Thanks.

did anyone manage to fix the problem with the mac OS 10.5.8 that appears when you click on file>new from current input source? Its sad I was looking forward to this :(

A must for all those, who wish to create their own keyboard layouts. Some of my keylayouts were created with Alex Eulenberg’s site, then refined with UKELELE, others created directly with UKELELE. John Brownie deserves all our respect for his work. It is a lot easier to use this app as compared to its Windows equivalent (something like MSKLC or so).

Is this a kernel extension?

Snow Leopard / Mac mini, Logitech illuminated keyboard Ukelele v.2.1.8 When I select Preferences, Themes Ukelele crash width crash file available in my Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/

Great app, even though I'm not much to tinker with keyboard layouts. one thing though.. shouldn't it be UKULELE? and not UKELELE? BTW Ukulele translates into: Jumping Flea. Which is what the Hawaiians thought it sounded like when played.

UKELELE is one of those small Mac OS gems, which make me use Mac OS, not Windows or Linux. I have no preconceived ideas, but—when working with linguistc text, dialectal texts or other similar stuff—some applications in Mac OS simply can do what you want, unlike similar Windows or Linux apps. When this achieved, the next step is to have an easy-to-use keylayout editor, as the existing, default keylayout are not sufficient in many instances. With this in view, perhaps Apple may do more in this respect. Note that, out of the basic Apple applications, only TextEdit can easily handle combined diacritical marks. Pages cannot do that.

UKELELE is that piece of a wonderful application, which makes work easier and faster. All those needing to write special texts (in the field of linguistics, dialectology and other specialized fields) will need UKELELE in order to creater their custom keyboard layouts. Meanwhile, it has grown up as a mature application, of professional level. Congratulations to John Brownie for his constant work.

I believe that most of the problems with beta versions of version 2.0 have been solved, though there are still some minor issues to work on. Hopefully just about everything is working correctly now.

I believe that most of the problems with beta versions of version 2.0 have been solved, though there are still some minor issues to work on. Hopefully just about everything is working correctly now.