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#Program mac for alphabetical keyboard input plus#

pressing caps-lock does not switch input method any more.

pressing caps-lock does switch input method, but the indicator in menubar doesn't change accordingly at all.

when using English(whether Capital or not), press caps-lock to switch to Chinese.

when using English, long press caps-lock to switch to Capital English, long press caps-lock to go back.

when using Chinese, long press caps-lock will turn input method to Capital English, green light will be on in Apple Magic Keyboard.

when using Chinese, press caps-lock will turn input method to English.

Using caps-lock to switch Chinese input method and English. When everything works fine, here are the behaviors should be: Correct behaviors In input settings, I enabled switching input method by Caps-lock key. Solution is to only use the correct behaviors ( hereafter quoted as below):

#Program mac for alphabetical keyboard input plus#

It turns out a very bad and messy design plus bugs caused the widespread frustration. This bothered me for almost a whole year. For example, I can type my text in another application and just paste into my Mail as a temporary fix. However I can live with that for the time being. Then I quit them again, switched to my trusty Terminal, CHANGED THE INPUT SOURCE and only then restarted Skype - Skype gave me my OtherLanguage back! Repeated the same with Slack - it worked too! Repeated with Safari - it worked again! Repeated with Mail - no way :(

First, I quit the applications that were "uncooperative" (Safari, Mail, Skype, Slack). Unfortunately, in my case rebooting is not an option, so I kept experimenting. Some "cooperative" applications (in my case Terminal) still allow me to switch (using any method) AND STAY with the OtherLanguage layout. I noticed that this behaviour is application-specific. What happens is I BRIEFLY see the flag of my OtherLanguage, and then when I try to type, it switches back to English.

It doesn't matter if I use a keyboard shortcut for switching or try to switch in the menu bar. I finally found a satisfactory way to temporarily fix this on my computer (running Sierra 10.12.6) WITHOUT REBOOTING! Even opened an account on StackExchange to share :)įirst, my symptoms: at some point the keyboard stops switching between English and my OtherLanguage.