Hotkeys

All "system-wide" keyboard shortcuts for macOS are bound using builtin functionality. The shortcuts are set in config.yaml as a darwin_hotkeys map that has the following structure:

• <system keycode>:
  • parameters: <keyboard keys in ascii>
  • enabled: <boolean that indicates whether shortcut is enabled>

Where <system keycode> is the int UID for the feature in System Preferences - Keyboard - Shortcuts, e.g.: "Show Spotlight search" corresponds to 64.

Key Bindings

The following keybindings are available:

Key Combination	Action
Cmd+G	Show Spotlight search.
Cmd+Space	Select the next source in input menu.

Note

community.general.osx_defaults Ansible collection does not support modifying system shortcuts yet. This is why I use ansible.builtin.command to accomplish the desired result, which is not idempotent.

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