App preset
Keynote: controller layout for Mac
Keynote can be driven from a game controller, a MIDI pad, or an adaptive controller on a Mac. InputConfig sends real keyboard and mouse events, so the app sees an ordinary keyboard and mouse. This is the layout the app's Smart Preset Maker builds for it: Present, advance slides, pointer.
Get the preset in two clicks
- Open InputConfig and click Smart Preset Maker on the welcome screen.
- Search for Keynote and pick it. The layout below is created as a preset in your sidebar, named and ready.
- Press Activate. Every row can be changed afterwards: the editor's Scan button rebinds any control the moment you touch it.
The preset can open Keynote.app for you when it activates.
The full button map
| Controller | Sends | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Right trigger | Right | Next slide (right trigger) |
| Left trigger | Left | Previous slide (left trigger) |
| A / Cross | Right | Next slide |
| B / Circle | Left | Previous slide |
| RB / R1 | Right | Next (bumper) |
| LB / L1 | Left | Previous (bumper) |
| D-pad right | Right | Next |
| D-pad left | Left | Previous |
| Y / Triangle | Escape | End show (Esc) |
| X / Square | Command (Left), Alt / Option (Left), P | Play slideshow (Cmd+Opt+P) |
| Left stick left | Mouse motion left (speed 14) | Pointer left |
| Left stick right | Mouse motion right (speed 14) | Pointer right |
| Left stick up | Mouse motion up (speed 14) | Pointer up |
| Left stick down | Mouse motion down (speed 14) | Pointer down |
Button names follow the Xbox / PlayStation pair shown in the editor, so A / Cross is the bottom face button on either pad. On a Switch Pro Controller the bottom button is labelled B; the mapping still fires on position.
Tips
- Trigger, bumper, face button, or D-pad advances slides.
- Left stick moves a pointer; X ends the show.
Make it yours
Nothing here is fixed. Rows can be re-scanned to a different control, given hold and double-tap actions, chords, turbo, macros, haptic or spoken feedback, and per-binding deadzones and sensitivity curves. The binding editor guide covers every option, and the controller map shows what each control is called.
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