Use Caps Lock as a Hyper key on Mac
A Hyper key is one key that presses ⌃ Control, ⌥ Option and ⌘ Command together. Few apps use that combination, so Hyper shortcuts rarely clash. Wimi can turn Caps Lock into Hyper, so its shortcuts and your own take one finger.
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Turn it on
Open Wimi’s Settings → Shortcuts and switch on “Make Caps Lock the Hyper key”. It’s off until you do. Optionally, tapping Caps Lock on its own can send Escape.
Wimi’s shortcuts then show as “Hyper” plus a key. When you record a shortcut, hold Caps Lock.
Wimi’s Hyper shortcuts
- Hyper Space: search windows, apps and actions
- Hyper arrows: move focus to the window in that direction; with ⇧, swap them
- Hyper 1–9: switch workspace; with ⇧, send the window there
- Hyper L, J, 0: layouts, next layout, reset layout sizes
- Hyper F, R: float a window, rotate windows through the slots
- Hyper D, V, E: show desktop, clipboard history, emoji
These are suggestions: change or turn off any of them in Settings → Shortcuts. Shortcuts in other apps work with Hyper too, since they see an ordinary ⌃⌥⌘ chord.
Good to know
- Caps Lock no longer toggles capitals while Hyper is on. Quitting Wimi or turning Hyper off gives Caps Lock back.
- External keyboards need the Input Monitoring permission; macOS asks the first time. Media keys on those keyboards aren’t passed through while Hyper is on.
- If you remapped keys yourself with macOS’s hidutil tool, turning Hyper on replaces that mapping.
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