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How to get Tilde (~) to work correctly in macOS

This is to solve an issue where you use a non-apple european keyboard with the US keyboard layout in macOS where the Tilde key is in the wrong place.

This is the process for the Logitec MX Keys Mini

  • Connect the keyboard (bluetooth)
  • Make sure the keyboard is in PC mode (hold fn + p for 3 seconds)
  • Go through the keyboard wizard and at the end select the European ISO... layout
  • Switch the keyboard to Mac mode (hold fn + o for 3 seconds)
  • Tilde should work

If this doesn't work:

  • delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist
  • reboot
  • try above again
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whydrae commented Mar 15, 2024

Maybe someone finds it helpful, but I couldn't get used to the fact, that tilde was on the right to the Shift key, but I get used that it's above the Tab. To swap them, hold "fn+U" for around 3 seconds and it will be changed. I found it somewhere over Reddit, but no docs to this behaviour attached.

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@whydrae yessir! that did the job. thank you very much!

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