How to reset your keyboard on OSX

Somehow, after connecting my new Logitech G9 Laser mouse tonight, two keys on my MS Natural Ergo keyboard were swapped. Highly annoying. After some digging around the Googles, I learned that in order to “reset” your keyboard —i.e. making OSX forget your keyboard type— all you have to do is a

rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist

Once done, disconnect the keyboard, plug it in again, and the “New keyboard found, wot is it?” dialog will pop up again. Problem solved, case closed.

Thanks to Riccardo Raneri, on whose blog I found this hint. Credit where it’s due.

∞ posted 2 months ago in en Hardware OSX Apple Troubleshooting

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  • czottmann
The personal blog of Carlo Zottmann, a freelance software developer from Munich, Germany.

He builds "applications" or "sites" for them so-called "internets". Currently notable projects are TwerpScan and Ephemera, a Mac tool for Instapaper enthusiasts with ebook readers.

His hobbies include taming dolphins, riding lemurs and collecting spores, molds and fungus — the food of the future.