Comments on: Switch Between Keyboards on Mac

By: Samuli S.

Samuli S. — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:50:15 +0000

Ok, I was being clueless and desperate after searching for this for weeks… I have to have several keyboard setups selected in “International” to see “Input menu”.

Thanks, absolutely fantastic tip! Now I’ll design a macro to switch keyboard layout on demand, punch a PS keyboard shortcut in US layout and then switch back. Brilliant!

By: ulrich

ulrich — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:53:55 +0000

Awesome! So simple, yet took me long to discover.

What if you use an external keyboard with a different layout. Is it possible to automatically switch between layouts if I use the external one?

Thanks!

By: Sherali

Sherali — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:23:05 +0000

Tiger had a nice ability of keeping your keyboard layout per-application. I normally need English layout in my IDE or Terminal whereas an alternative layout in my IM chat window.

The feature seems to have been lost in Leopard. It no longer maintains the chosen layout per-application and the switch works on a global scale.

Am I the only one seeing this or is this intentional in Leopard? Is there a way to get it back?

By: Kriszti Kotka

Kriszti Kotka — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:25:31 +0000

Hi!
Could you guys help me out because I’ve been searching for ever… I’m regularly using three different keyboard layouts, that is, three alphabets. I’m trying to find a keyboard shortcut that could switch among all three of them, but I can’t! When I do the above described shortcut (enabling “select the previous input source”), it only ends up switching between the first two layouts, and completely ignores the third one; I have to click on it with the mouse to enable it, and this way the shortcut loses its significance.

Any ideas are welcome! Thanks! (:o)