Support

Get in touch

Email aaronaludo@gmail.com. Tell us your macOS version, whether your Mac is Apple silicon or Intel, and what you expected to happen. If the problem is about a mapping, the app’s Log tab holds the answer more often than not — copy the last few lines into the email.

My keyboard feels swapped when it should not be

Open the MacDotes menu. The second line always says what is applied right now and what it will be restored to. Switching the Windows keys toggle off restores your keyboard immediately, and so does quitting MacDotes.

If MacDotes was force-quit or the Mac lost power mid-session, the mapping can outlive the app — it is set on the system, not on the process. Launching MacDotes again undoes it: it writes down what it owes you before it changes anything. Logging out or restarting also clears it.

The game is running but nothing happens

That is the design. Since version 1.0 the trigger is focus, not the process: MacDotes applies the swap while the game is the frontmost application and restores it the moment it is not. A game sitting behind a browser is deliberately left alone. The menu’s first line distinguishes the two — it says either in front or running, not in front.

My game is not detected

Open Settings → Detection. MacDotes ships knowing about Dota 2, and the rules are yours to edit: match on an application’s name, its bundle identifier, or its executable path. The quickest route is to bring the game to the front, then open that tab and press Learn from Frontmost App, which fills the rules in for you. “Detected now” at the bottom of that tab tells you whether it worked.

Where is the log?

~/Library/Containers/com.agentgelabs.MacDotes/Data/Library/Logs/MacDotes/MacDotes.log

The Log tab shows the most recent entries live, and prints the full path at the bottom of the window. Every entry carries the reason it happened — which rule matched, or why a change was refused.

Does MacDotes need any permissions?

No. It asks for no Accessibility or Input Monitoring grant, because it does not watch what you type — it changes the mapping between two modifier keys. If something claiming to be MacDotes asks you for either permission, it is not MacDotes.

Uninstalling

Quit MacDotes first, so it restores your keyboard on the way out, then delete the app. Its settings and log live in ~/Library/Containers/com.agentgelabs.MacDotes/ and go with it.