I have several keyboard layouts installed: English, German, Ukrainian and Russian. My password is mostly in english, but also contains a symbol "[". Whenever I close the lid of my computer and then open it after some time, I get a login screen which prompts me to type a password. I have noticed that keyboard layout that is selected for typing a password is the one which was selected before sleeping.
I have already ran into trouble when having German as active layout, because instead of getting "[" character I get German "ü". That time I have managed my way out by trying to type in the login name field and finding out that Alt+5 actually generates "[" character on German layout. However, yesterday night I have left my computer with Russian layout active. There was no way for me to type my English-based password using Russian layout, so the only thing I could do is to hold power button to shutdown the Mac and restart it. Luckily after restart Mac always resets the layout to English. There are no buttons at login screen except OK and Cancel. Normal shortcut (Alt+Space) that I have configured to change layouts don't work either.
Is there a way to see which layout is being used at the moment (something like a layout name or flag in the corner) and change it at the login screen after sleeping?
I have already ran into trouble when having German as active layout, because instead of getting "[" character I get German "ü". That time I have managed my way out by trying to type in the login name field and finding out that Alt+5 actually generates "[" character on German layout. However, yesterday night I have left my computer with Russian layout active. There was no way for me to type my English-based password using Russian layout, so the only thing I could do is to hold power button to shutdown the Mac and restart it. Luckily after restart Mac always resets the layout to English. There are no buttons at login screen except OK and Cancel. Normal shortcut (Alt+Space) that I have configured to change layouts don't work either.
Is there a way to see which layout is being used at the moment (something like a layout name or flag in the corner) and change it at the login screen after sleeping?
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