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10.6: Show country flag on Input Menu on menu bar
Authored by: asmeurer on Sep 18, '09 08:56:55AM

An interesting keyboard for US users is the US Extended keyboard. It is just like the US keyboard, except pressing option gives every possible accent. It's easier than trying to find the accented characters in the character viewer.



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10.6: Show country flag on Input Menu on menu bar
Authored by: UberFu on Sep 18, '09 12:33:30PM

I always use the Keyboard Viewer. Press a key combination and look for what symbol you want to use .


I wish they had kept it outside of the 'Flag Menu Icon" like they did in OS 9 and early OSX with Key Caps. As a stand alone like Spaces or Expose or Dashboard as the Menu is a pain in the ass to go to all the time.



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10.6: Show country flag on Input Menu on menu bar
Authored by: wallybear on Sep 18, '09 12:53:44PM

If you hate calling Keyboard Viewer from the Input Menu, you can assign it to a keyboard shortcut like Exposè or Dashboard, or you can put it in the Dock.

Keyboard Viewer is an application, It's buried in:

/System/Library/Components/KeyboardViewer.component/Contents/SharedSupport/KeyboardViewerServer.app/Contents/MacOS/KeyboardViewerServer.app

Yes, its actual name is KeyboardViewerServer.app; you can drag it in the Dock or create a shortcut.

(I don't have installed 10.6 yet; the path I wrote comes from 10.5, but it's highly probable it hasn't changed)



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10.6: Show country flag on Input Menu on menu bar
Authored by: brh on Sep 18, '09 01:23:43PM

On my (10.6) machine, it's located in /System/Library/Input Methods/…

KeyboardViewer.app won't run from there for me, but CharacterPalette.app does run just fine, which is fantastic news for me!

Now I'd just like it if someone would find out a convenient way to have a multi-item Input Menu list, without showing the flag in the menubar… Too bright!



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10.6: Show country flag on Input Menu on menu bar
Authored by: asmeurer on Jan 03, '10 08:48:58PM

Um, you can. Just set the keyboard shortcut for select previous/next input source in the Keyboard Preference Pane (under Keyboard & Text Input) and Command-Drag the flag from the menubar. You can use the keyboard shortcuts to bring up a floating panel of input methods and the flag will not be in the menubar.



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