
That’s where all the real work happens.ġ) For the moment, ignore the “Click here to record a shortcut” section. Now direct your attention to the righthand sidebar. You’ll notice the “Assigned Action” is ⌘A. Luckily, there’s software that can recognize that and do something useful instead.īetter Touch Tool is best known for getting random mice and trackpads to work, but it does a nice job on keyboards as well. So if you plug it in and hit the 08 key, you’ll see it type a ‘w’. It’s important to understand that macOS sees the Tartarus Pro as a plain old keyboard. How to make the Tartarus Pro work on macOS Catalina

So please, Razer, make one! But if you want to use a gaming pad like the Tartarus Pro for keyboard shortcuts, this does the trick. Note that this doesn’t do half of what a proper driver could accomplish, particularly for gaming. So in the interest of sharing what I’ve learned - and remembering how I got this to work in the first place - let me walk through the steps. It’s nicely built! Unfortunately, it doesn’t offer drivers for the current macOS.Īfter a lot of googling, I’ve cobbled together a solution. When my beloved Logitech keypad crapped out, I switched to the well-reviewed Razer Tartarus Pro.

Pasteboard History (which is part of Better Touch Tool).So for the past decade I’ve used an external gaming keypad to the left of my keyboard with custom macros set up for some common commands: While this odd keyboard is great for normal typing, certain key combinations are unwieldy.

As I’ve written before, I use this weird keyboard which has helped greatly with my carpal tunnel issues.
