How to type keyboard shortcuts like ⌘Ä, ⌘Ö, ⌘Ü, etc. on a US keyboard

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I'm using a Mac laptop with German set as the preferred language (the keyboard, however, is a standard US keyboard). With this setting, some keyboard shortcuts include the characters Ä, Ö, and Ü. E.g. ⌘Ä (command-Ä), ⌘Ö (command-Ö), ⌘Ü (command-Ü), etc.

Now, I produce Ä by first pressing ⌥-u (Option-u), and then pressing ⇧-a (Shift-a). I can't figure out any way of using this method to produce the equivalent of ⌘Ä (command-Ä). The same goes for for Ö and Ü.

Is there some way to produce these keyboard shortcuts on a US keyboard?

Best Answer

You can change the shortcuts from System Preferences:

They can also be changed with defaults. The shortcut format is described in the Cocoa Text System article.

#!/bin/bash

defaults write -g NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Vorherigen Tab auswahlen" = "~@\UF702";
"Nächsten Tab auswahlen" = "~@\UF703";
"Zurück" = "@\UF702";
"Vorwärts" = "@\UF703";
}'
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