Karabiner-Elements: Remapping Left click does not work on the trackpad

The code below doesn’t work.

{
  "type": "basic",
  "from": {
    "pointing_button": "button1"
  },
  "to": [
    {
      "key_code": "a"
    }
  ]
}

My goal is to rebind ctrl click to command click but simply rebinding button1 isn’t working at all. the rules from the import page that relates to rebinding ctrl click to disable it don’t work either.

I’m on macOS mojave 10.14.6 using Karabiner Elements 12.9.0

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Bad @stale bot!

+10

eyalroth on Dec 27, 2020

Not stale.

eyalroth on Sep 13, 2020

Karabiner does not remap mouses by default. Go into the Karabiner Preferences screen, Devices tab, and see if the tickybox next to your mouse is ticked.

If that does not fix it, you might be running into a similar problem I’m having, which only occurs on the trackpad. I’m trying to remap command-left-click to ctrl-left-click for one particular application on MacOS Catalina.

As long as I enable the mouse in the Preferences/Devices tab, my remapping works successfully for an actual mouse, but it does not work for the trackpad (which is also enabled).

tfabris on Feb 22, 2020

Same here, doesn’t work with trackpad (haven’t tried external mouse).

Configuration:

{
    "manipulators": [
        {
            "conditions": [
                {
                    "bundle_identifiers": [
                        "^com\\.google\\.Chrome"
                    ],
                    "type": "frontmost_application_if"
                }
            ],
            "description": "Ctrl+LMC -> Cmd+LMC in Chrome",
            "from": {
                "modifiers": {
                    "mandatory": [
                        "left_control"
                    ]
                },
                "pointing_button": "button1"
            },
            "to": {
                "modifiers": [
                    "left_command"
                ],
                "pointing_button": "button1"
            },
            "type": "basic"
        }
    ]
},

Also note that I can’t enable the trackbad mouse in the devices settings: Screen Shot 2020-03-24 at 12 23 50

Catalina 10.15.3, Karabiner 12.9.0

eyalroth on Mar 24, 2020