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When the Mac is connected to a third-party USB keyboard (such as the author's external ikbc 87-key mechanical keyboard, if you are using Apple's official ecological products such as keyboard and Magic Keyboard, you don't have to look down), you will find that the keyboard on the original MacBook is the same as the one on the original MacBook. In contrast, the Option and Command keystrokes are reversed.
This operational partition brings a relatively bad experience. Frequent switching to deal with the key positions of different keyboards can lead to input errors in extreme cases, which greatly affects the efficiency of typing.
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In the system preferences on MacOS, in the keyboard column, you can adjust the order of these two buttons through custom settings to achieve the same input key sequence experience as the native keyboard.
Setup steps
1. Determine the type of your keyboard
Follow the wizard step by step to determine your keyboard type.
2. Replacing the keyboard key sequence
Keyboard type, choose: usb keyboard
As shown in the figure below, after replacing the option and command keys, the final configuration is:
After this setting, the ordinary usb keyboard can be changed to the same button operation sequence as the native keyboard.