Karabiner-Elements and the Hyper key

Karabiner-Elements: Caps Lock as Escape and Hyper, and Hyper shortcuts for apps.

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Karabiner remaps the keyboard. Caps Lock, the most wasted key, becomes Escape when tapped and Hyper (Cmd+Ctrl+Opt+Shift) when held. Hyper plus a letter then opens an app from anywhere, without clashing with any app’s own shortcuts.

On the workstation

Installed by the karabiner-elements cask; karabiner.json comes from the config repo.

Keys and commands

Key or command Does

Key or command	Does
Caps Lock (tap)	Escape
Hyper+T	Ghostty
Hyper+V	VS Code
Hyper+I	IntelliJ IDEA
Hyper+B	Chrome
Hyper+A	Bruno
Hyper+M	Teams
Hyper+O	Outlook
Hyper+S	A Shottr area screenshot
Hyper+D	A new Ghostty window running `dev`

Caps Lock (tap)

Escape

Hyper+T

Ghostty

Hyper+V

VS Code

Hyper+I

IntelliJ IDEA

Hyper+B

Chrome

Hyper+A

Bruno

Hyper+M

Teams

Hyper+O

Outlook

Hyper+S

A Shottr area screenshot

Hyper+D

A new Ghostty window running dev

Karabiner-Elements and the Hyper key

On the workstation

Keys and commands

See also

Keyboard shortcuts