How to Start Dictation on macOS with a Microsoft Surface Ergonomic Keyboard

• KE-complex_modifications

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  Karabiner-Elements complex_modifications rules

I was using my friend's Microsoft Surface Ergonomic Keyboard when I was staying at their house for a few days. I really liked the keyboard so I bought one for myself. It's a great keyboard, but the function key behavior is a bit annoying. Pressing the function key just toggles a little light on the key, and doesn't actually send any keypress event. macOS also thinks that this keyboard has a globe key for some reason. So it took me a long time to figure out how to start dictation and come up with this workaround that I posted on StackExchange.

I actually really enjoyed finding a solution for this problem, and I'm really impressed with Karabiner-Elements. I've been reading through the complex rule examples on their documentation site [1], and there's some really cool ideas.

I like the idea of setting up keyboard shortcuts to launch apps [2]. There's also a safeguard for command-q, so you always have to press it twice. (Google Chrome already does this, so you could set up a condition to ignore the rule if Google Chrome is the active application.)

[1] https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org

[2] https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/#apps_launch_any_l...

[3] https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/#command_q

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