

So it’s like a layout for Latin letters (for writing text in English and programming) and layout for Cyrillic letters.īut, you see, here comes a problem. That makes living in Ukraine similar to living in Russia or elsewhere where they have the same problem. For example, you can’t just use a single layout like all those peoples in the USA or elsewhere where they have this luxury. Sample karabiner.Life has blessed me with being born in Ukraine this complicates life a bit though when dealing with computers. You can freely edit settings of each profile after switching to it keprofile - lists your profiles then ENTER to switch to one.Note that after you switch to a different profile, you can adjust its settings inside Karabiner Elements preferences window, save them and it'll all work seamlessly the workflow only changes selected: true|false attribute, nothing else. Once you select a profile you want to switch to, hit ENTER and the workflow script will edit your karabiner.json file so that the selected profile becomes active.

Type keprofile (you can change this if you like), to fetch your profiles defined in karabiner.json and list them in Alfred.Karabiner Elements listens for changes in karabiner.json config file, and there is a setting that specifies which profile is currently active – selected: true. This is an important features for people that regularly switch between internal / Apple keyboard and an external USB one, which usually have different layout, hence the need for 2+ profiles. Although, as of now, you can define multiple profiles in the ~/.config/karabiner/karabiner.json file, but you can't switch between them easily. The fresh macOS Sierra rewrite of the original Karabiner, the Karabiner Elements qietly supports multiple profiles, which has been one of the core features, historically speaking.

Karabiner Elements profile switcher (Alfred Workflow)
