Is it possible to customise two keyboards differently?

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I spent quite a long time setting up my Mac keyboard as that’s preferable for me (for reasons I won’t waste time going into here). I used the Gnome Tweaks extension to swap ctrl and alt keys. I got everything working really nice on the mac keyboard, all shortcuts just how/where i want them. Then i took the laptop off the desk and used it somewhere else, and nothing’s working right, duh, I now realise why!! I am wondering if it’s possible to have two keyboards I can switch between in the OS, one with those many changes and custom shortcuts I set up, and the other as completely standard.

I see the option to add an input source, in settings>keyboard. But the customisations I made seem to affect all input sources.

I have English UK input source, it doesn’t look like I can add a second one as a duplicate, which I was hoping for. I tried adding English US keyboard (as that’s close enough), but if i choose that one, all my customisations still apply .

Is there any way to have two input sources, one with some custom shortcuts and one with standard/default setup?

thanks

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I have a VERY long answer for you here, it’s possible to do with a couple tools and a config file but I am out of time today. I will post what I can and touch base tomorrow morning.

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Thanks HC - always love to read anything you have to say so I will wait with baited breath. No urgency :slight_smile:
thanks

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PS, in case you can include it, I’d also like to know if it’s possible to swap the " and @ functions around, so Shift-2 gives me the @ instead of the "