https://github.com/rubensandwich/touchbarkeyboard

A fully functional keyboard for your touch bar! No thinness lost, it's the perfect solution!
https://github.com/rubensandwich/touchbarkeyboard

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A fully functional keyboard for your touch bar! No thinness lost, it's the perfect solution!

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rubensandwich/touchbarkeyboard
• Owner: RubenSandwich
• License: mit
• Archived: true
• Created: 2019-05-03T20:01:26.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-05-04T13:23:46.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-12T22:49:33.413Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: joke, keyboard, macbookkeyboardsareajoke, touchbar
• Language: Objective-C
• Homepage:
• Size: 712 KB
• Stars: 31
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Touch Bar Keyboard

Does your new MacBook Pro Keyboard keep breaking?  

Are you out of warranty?  

Can you not only use external keyboards? 

Add a fully functional keyboard to your touch bar!  

**No thinness lost, it's the perfect solution!**

![Touch Bar Keyboard Open Icon](screenshot1.png)

![Touch Bar Keyboard Keys](screenshot2.png)

 

### [Download A Prebuilt Release](https://github.com/RubenSandwich/TouchBarKeyboard/releases/download/v1.0/TouchBarKeyboard.app.zip)

If you want to quit Touch Bar Keyboard, like if you bought a MacBook Pro 2015, it can be quit through the menu bar.

![Touch Bar Keyboard Menu Bar Icon](menuBar.png)

*Note:* Touch Bar Keyboard does require accessibility features to send keys. It will ask for these permissions when launched. Below is screenshots showing how to accept these permissions.

![Open System Preferences Alert](install1.png)

![Allow Touch Bar Keyboard Accessibility Features](install2.png)

## Q & A

Q: How can I use this on my non-Touch Bar MacBook?  

A: [This link should help.](https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/13-inch-space-gray-256gb-2.3ghz-quad-core#)

Q: How come the keys don’t repeat when you hold them down?  

A: How come your keys don’t work at ALL when you hold them down?

Q: Why did you do this?  

A: "I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it." - Frank A. Clark

Q: Can this be submitted to the App Store?  

A: Nope. It uses private API to put a Touch Bar Item in the System Tray Touch Bar Group.

## Author

[Ruben Nic](https://rubennic.com)  

[@RubensSandwich](https://twitter.com/RubensSandwich)

## Credit

mikicon - [Icon touch bar by mikicon from the Noun Project](https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=touch%20bar&i=741573)

Alexsander Akers - [Private API usage](https://github.com/a2/touch-baer)

## License

Touch Bar Keyboard is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.