Karabiner-Elements VS Karabiner-DriverKit-VirtualHIDDevice

Compare Karabiner-Elements vs Karabiner-DriverKit-VirtualHIDDevice and see what are their differences.

Karabiner-Elements

Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later. (by pqrs-org)
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Karabiner-Elements Karabiner-DriverKit-VirtualHIDDevice
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17,889 207
1.4% 1.9%
9.7 7.8
3 days ago 7 months ago
C++ C++
The Unlicense The Unlicense
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Karabiner-Elements

Posts with mentions or reviews of Karabiner-Elements. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-13.

Karabiner-DriverKit-VirtualHIDDevice

Posts with mentions or reviews of Karabiner-DriverKit-VirtualHIDDevice. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Remote Control for Mac [Pro] [Free instead of $7.99]
    1 project | /r/macapps | 24 Jul 2021
    I am a paid user of your app. I am trying to use it in a game running on MacOS (Big Sur, M1). Now the game is not able to detect the key presses from the remote. It is actually a windows game running via CrossOver on MacOS. I suspect it is because of the way you are "tapping" into HID key event pipeline. I found a way around it by simulating a keyboard using this (https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-DriverKit-VirtualHIDDevice). Now this is a virtual HID driver which simulates a keyboard. I have a sample app which can simulate keypresses.

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