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Mac Built-in Keyboard Disabler

This disable(/re-enable) macbook's built-in keyboard smarty when your external keyboard connected(/disconnected).

my macbook and hhkbpro2

So, you can put your favorite keyboard on your Macbook.

Setup

This has dependency for libusbx to watch usb attaching/detaching. If you don't have it:

$ brew install libusbx

Next, clone this repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/kumar8600/mac-builtin-keyboard-disabler
$ cd mac-builtin-keyboard-disabler

Next, in ./keyboard-disabler.sh, edit VENDER_ID and PRODUCT_ID for your keyboard's one (You can get them by executing $ system_profiler SPUSBDataType):

#!/bin/bash

VENDER_ID=0x04d9 #YOU NEED TO CHANGE HERE

PRODUCT_ID=0x4545 #YOU NEED TO CHANGE HERE
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Finally, make and install:

$ make
$ sudo make install

Done. Let's connect your external keyboard!!

Known Issues

When external keyboard disconnect (i.e. re-enable built-in keyboard), be printed all that was typed on the built-in keyboard.

I'm using the trick presented in following thread.

Can I disable internal keyboard/trackpad on MBP? - MacRumors Forums

This problem depends on this trick. But I don't know other way to disable built-in keyboard. We only can be careful.

The integrated keyboard is not re-enabled when no typing with built-in keyboard even once.

To avoid it, please type something before disconnect external keyboard.

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