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I've used keyremap4macbook for the last few years to turn the right Alt key into a forward delete. Unfortunately, the tool has stopped working in Lion.

Does anybody know of a keyboard remapper that already works in Lion?

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I'm in the same boat, only worse. I have a Japanese keyboard, and the default keymapping doesn't work in the terminal. The backslash key (¥) produces a unknown-symbol box in the terminal. This is actually one of the big things preventing me from upgrading. – Fake Name Jul 21 '11 at 6:03
I imagine keyremap4macbook will be updated soon for Lion. – Nathan Greenstein♦ Jul 21 '11 at 13:57
Wait, never mind. I just installed Lion anyways, and keyremap4macbook seemed to work fine. What problem are you having? – Fake Name Jul 22 '11 at 3:39
@Fake Name: It just doesn't work. I can see the prefPane, but I can't make any changes (they revert as soon as the mouse button goes up again), and the only setting I had (Alt -> Forward delete) is not set anymore. I'll try reinstalling it. – fzwo Jul 22 '11 at 9:20
@Fake Name: You were right, it worked. I think I had a really old version installed, and for whatever reason didn't see on the homepage that there were newer versions. – fzwo Jul 22 '11 at 9:42

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Turns out I had an old version.

The new, officially Lion compatible version from the keyremap4macbook homepage works fine.

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