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[by Gergith] Hello; This is a guide on how to disable the built in keyboard for your Macbook, Macbook Air, and Macbook Pro. I have a few keys not working on my laptop and wanted a method to disable the whole thing. Through lots of searching I stumbled onto this method and refined it to the way I have it now. First off is the basic terminal code itself. This code turns off the keyboard: sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBTCKeyboard.kext This code turns on the keyboard: sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBTCKeyboard.kext Both of these codes when entered into terminal will require you to enter your account login. I would advise you enter this password and code on your secondary keyboard so you know for certain you have a working keyboard. An alternative method instead of just inputing this code into a shell script so that you can run it by double clicking a file instead of entering the whole code everytime. To do this you will enter the following code into a file you name whatever you want with the .sh file extension. I chose disablekeyboard.sh and enablekeyboard.sh respectively. Here are the contents of each file enablekeyboard.sh contents: #!/bin/sh sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBTCKeyboard.kext disablekeyboard.sh contents: #!/bin/sh sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBTCKeyboard.kext Lastly, to make those .sh files open in terminal when you double click them you simply have to do the following: Select the file and Get Info by either typing ( command ⌘ + I ) or right click and click Get Info In the "Open with" section, choose "Other…" in the popup menu Choose Terminal as the application |
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