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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: DamienG on Sun, 15 February 2015, 06:07:12

Title: Unlit LED keys on Mac (e.g. scroll lock) SOLVED
Post by: DamienG on Sun, 15 February 2015, 06:07:12

So those of us with backlit keyboards have been a little miffed that the modifier leds are unlit unless we toggle them on. This has two problems:

1. The Mac has no scroll-lock feature in the OS so you can't turn it on
2. Nobody wants to leave caps-lock on as you can't type without shouting

There is now a solution - http://github.com/damieng/setledsmac

Simple download the binary from the release page and put it somewhere on your machine then from the terminal run it with +scroll +num +caps, e.g.

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./setledsmac +scroll +num +caps
If you only want to set the LEDs on a specific keyboard then use the -name option with a wildcard, e.g.

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./setledsmac +scroll -name "*Ducky*"
If you're worried about running a binary from somebody you barely know just download or git checkout the project and load it into XCode.

Requires 10.5 or better, 32-bit or 64-bit are supported.

Update: I should clarify that this turns the LEDs on without activating the lock itself. So you can type with your caps lock light on but still in normal case.

[)amien

Title: Re: Unlit LED keys on Mac (e.g. scroll lock) SOLVED
Post by: wyatt8740 on Sun, 15 February 2015, 15:20:16

This is cool. I rarely (about once every two months) boot into OS X on my iMac (I use Debian Linux), but I had to boot to it to try this. :D

Thanks!

Title: Re: Unlit LED keys on Mac (e.g. scroll lock) SOLVED
Post by: DamienG on Sun, 15 February 2015, 20:59:43

Glad you like it Wyatt.

Obviously you have setleds on Linux already - I used the exact same command line syntax although because OS X and Linux are so different I couldn't use any of the code.

[)amien