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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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