Keyboard layout changes to something not selected.

[michaelsanford]

I have my system localized in "French (Canadien)" and my region uses the "Canadian ISO" (Canadian flag) keyboard layout.

I also have the following layouts selected in the input menu:
• American
• American Extended
• Arabic - QWERTY
• Devanagari - QWERTY
• Greek
• Hebrew - QWERTY
• IPA-SIL (custom 3rd party Internatonal Phonetic Alphabet layout - http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/freeware.html)
(I'm studying linguistics so I use them often...)

Now, when I log back into my account it changes the keyboard layout to "French" (flag of France icon) which is not a layout that's compatible with my keyboard, and more importantly, is not selected in my keyboard preferences. I unckeck it every time, and say, 50% of the time it boots/I login it pops back.

How can I fix this ?

 

[Cheryl]

Go to your home folder>Library>Preferences. Trash the:
com.apple.finder.plist
com.apple.systempreference.plist

Restart the computer, then reset your preferences.

Check the Home>Library>keyboard folder. If you trash the French layout file, it won't pop up.

 

[michaelsanford]

My first thought was exactly that, to trash the layouts file.

However, since that layout is a built-in layout that ships with Mac OS X, the layout file doesn't exist in either /Library/Keyboard Layouts/ or ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts/ (both folders are empty, save my IPA-SIL layout).

 

[Cheryl]

Check the SystemFolder/Library/Keyboard Layouts.

You will need to change permissions on that Keyboard Layout folder in order to trash the French Bundle.

 

[michaelsanford]

Argh, why does Mac OS X have no less than three Library folders. I would have assumed that /Library was a -> /System/Library but no it's not.

Thanks, I'll use this as a last resort