Hi Tiffanitsa, Try using control+Fn+F8 to navigate to the status menu on the menu bar without the VO keys. (If you're not on a laptop try just control+F8). You still need to use the right arrow key to get to your text input menu. When you arrow down you should be able to type the first letter of the keyboard you want -- for me that's "U" for U.S. (English).
I think what happened is that there are two parts to the International preferences menu tabs that deal with language -- the first tab, which is language, has a preference order for listing languages, and I think it defaults to alphabetical. The input text tab (third tab) is the one you check for keyboard input. My guess is that when you added Greek on the third tab, somehow the system checked that as one of the languages for default use. It should be possible to boot up from your Leopard DVD and get VoiceOver control in English back if you put in the DVD and hold down the "c" key, I think. Sorry not to be more help. There should be a way to recover by trashing the correct plist file, but the problem is finding out the correct name. HTH Esther >Ok, I just did another restart and no good. I did find, though, that >I can do things that don't involve both vo keys. I can open things, >check things etc. So I went back to the system preferences (found >them in applications) and when I checked the languages, Greek wasn't >checked. I don't get it. If that's the input language that it's >using now, how can it not be checked? Furthermore, how can I get to >the status menu without hitting vo m? I could get sighted assistance, >but I'll have to wait till tomorrow and I hate doing that. Is there >some kind of cold reset I can do to get all the defaults back? > >On 3/30/08, Tiffany D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It definitely helped, but now, I can't get it back to english! I'm >> using a windows machine and am seriously considering switching back to >> windows if I can't solve this problem by creating a macros or >> something. I need a multilingual machine and this isn't cutting it. >> I can't use any of the VO commands because they won't work with the >> Greek keyboard layout. I tried hitting the off button and then >> turning it on again, hoping that it wouldn't save my settings, but it >> did. So how do I fix this? Microsoft got this one right with alt >> shift as a default to change this, no matter where you are. Btw, I >> actually can use command w and command q, jut not anything else. >> >> On 3/30/08, Jacob Schmude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hi >> > The status menu is vo+m twice, it's where your battery, clock, and >> > other things show up. Pressing vo+space on the checkbox for me says >> > checked, but doesn't actually check the box. You need to use vo+cmd >> > +f5, then vo+shift+space to click the box. >> > hth >> > >> > >> > >> > On Mar 30, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Tiffany D wrote: >> > > Ok, I'm not sure what you meant about the mouse and when I tried vo >> > > shift space, it didn't work. I just looked at the options and hit vo >> > > space and it said the box was checked. But where do I find this >> > > status menu? Also, is there a quick hotkey to do this? >> > > >> > > Thanks, >> > > Tiffanitsa >> > > >> > > >> > > On 3/30/08, Jacob Schmude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> Hi >> > >> To add any keyboard, go to system preferences, then international. >> > >> Select the input menu tab, and check the keyboards you want >> > >> (there's a >> > >> lot of them). Note that I had to route the mouse to the "on" checkbox >> > >> immediately to the left of each keyboard name and do vo+shift+space >> > >> to >> > >> actually click on the checkbox. >> > >> Once you've got more than one keyboard enabled, an icon will appear >> > >> on >> > >> your status menu called "text input." This is a pulldown menu from >> > >> which you can select any of the keyboards you have enabled. >> > >> hth >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> On Mar 30, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Tiffany D wrote: >> > >>> Geia sas, >> > >>> >> > >>> Can anyone please tell me how to add the Greek keyboard to the >> > >>> Macbook? I know how to do this in Windows, but have never attempted >> > >>> it in Leopard and don't want to wind up changing the whole system to >> > >>> Greek. *smile* Also, how to I switch between keyboard languages? >> > >>> >> > >>> thanks, >> > >>> Tiffanitsa >> > >>> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > > >
