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tinker tool /// but there's more
Authored by: mahakk on Jun 14, '02 01:55:56AM

tinker tool lets you specify which keyboard layout you'd like to use at login.

but there's also a glitch where the keyboard-menu shows up after each login, forcing you to deselect the us-layout (in most cases) in the system preferences.
this happens if you've defined apps for startup after login which don't have language resources for your language. the workaround - at least for bundled apps (mostly cocoa, some carbon) is this: ctrl-click on the app, select "show package contents" navigate to

contents->resources->english.lproj

and simply duplicate this folder and rename it to "german.lproj" (or whatever your language is). this doesn't do any harm as far as i know - ;) - but keeps the flag from appearing.
this also has the nice side-effect described in two hints at this site of localizing the apple menu and some dialogs inside these apps...
hth



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tinker tool /// but there's more
Authored by: ruebenschuss on Jun 14, '02 05:36:06AM

Thank you for that hint about getting rid of the us keyboard layout !!!!!

I have been trying to fix this problem for a long time now and couldn't make it. There were no hints about this before.
The silly thing about it is that it happens randomly on my machine...

Anyway, thanks again,
Joachim



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Fixing the layout changes at startup
Authored by: wallybear on Mar 29, '04 11:55:25AM

You can also try JAW SetKbd (donationware), you can find it at:

http://www.jaw.it

It just set the keyboard layout at startup to the one you prefer.



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