Karabiner-Elements: Cannot install Karabiner 13.0.0 driver

• macOS version: Catalina 10.15.7
• Karabiner version: 13.0.0
• Your Mac hardware: 2019 iMac 4K
• Your keyboard hardware: Leopold FC750R

After upgrading to Karabiner 13.0.0 I’m not able to use it. Every time I open Karabiner Preferences I see driver alert window, which tells how to reinstall the driver. Reinstall doesn’t have any effect.

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Created 4 years ago
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Comments: 19 (1 by maintainers)

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I have followed these instructions, as well as the instructions here: https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/1867 (and various similar threads)

None of them works: I don’t see the ‘Allow’ button in the Security & Privacy window, even after closing every other application on my computer, restarting several times, uninstalling and reinstalling, et c. In short, try as I might, I cannot get Karabiner-Elements 12.10.0 or 13.1.0 to work on macOS Catalina 10.15.7. It worked fine less than a week ago, and now I’ve spent hours trying to get it up and running again to no avail. Is anyone else finding that it just isn’t working?

isokrates on Nov 10, 2020

Update: I uninstalled and re-installed version 13.1.0 and managed to get things working. Here’s what I did:

Clicked ‘Uninstall Karabiner Elements’ from KE preferences
Downloaded and ran the installer from https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/
Started the app
Granted permissions in the Security & Privacy settings (as prompted)
Clicked the ‘activate driver’ button in the KE alert window
Restarted my machine

Upon restart, everything worked as expected. Hoping this works for some of you, as I agree that downgrading to 12.10.0 isn’t a great long-term fix.

ascander on Nov 5, 2020