Strange, now that i typed in your command, it works flawlessly!
Ohh, its probably because i copied the command in my Apple Notes (which most likely changed the formatting of the quotes!
Thank you so much!
Yep, I generally recommend to turn off the stupid macOS smart quote feature, it has never done anything useful for me 
(or set it to use " as default)
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Hi Andreas, the terminal command you provided has worked like an absolute charm for the past months, thanks again!
However, stupid apple introduced a bug with Mac OS 14.2.1/13.6.3 where the hidutil did not change the user keymapping anymore, no matter what.
But i found a thread on reddit, where they said, 14.3/13.6.4 "fixed" the bug, but now you have to run this command as root/sudo.
But when i put a sudo before this command and type in my admin password (in the normal terminal app), nothing changes...
Here is the command again, that should switch the ctrl and
"<" keys :
sudo /usr/bin/hidutil property --set '{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000035,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x7000000E0},
{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x7000000E0,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x700000035}]}'
Would mean the world if you could take a look!!
I dont know if one is allowed to post links here, but this is the reddit thread i mentioned:
Anyone?
Are you really sure you updated to 14.3?
This was broken on all 14.2 builds, but for me it is working fine on 14.3 - however it is a bit sad that it now requires sudo to be used.
Oh sorry, my mistake, i am actually on 13.6.4 (because of other compatibility needs). Any hope for 13.6.4?
Unfortunately I don't know ;-( I haven't tried with that macOS version but if it doesn't work there is probably not much you can do.
In that case I would recommend to use Karabiner Elements to remap the key.
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Thanks for the tip, will try that! But is the sudo command from above theoretically correct?
yes, on 14.3 that exact command works fine
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Good to know, thank you!