Hi James, You asked:
> Hi Anne, > > Does the Comand Space command to switch keyboard layout conflict > with the same command for Spotlight? > The Command Space shortcut definition to change input language keyboards actually predates the existence of Spotlight on the Mac. There are a couple of options: you can keep using Command Space to switch your keyboard input and use VoiceOver's shortcut of pressing VO- keys+M (Control-Option-M) three times instead as a shortcut for Spotlight, or you can change the shortcut command for Spotlight to Control Space. In fact, after you set up the input language keyboards you want by checking language options in the table on the Input Keyboard tab of the International menu under System Preferences, you can press a button to go to the keyboard shortcuts assignment menu. If you check the box in the table of shortcuts to activate the default shortcut for both Input Menu (switching) in addition to having the box checked for Spotlight's default shortcut, you'll be warned that there are conflicting definitions. However, if you stop interacting with the table of shortcuts and press the button for "Restore Defaults", the system will change the Spotlight shortcut command to Control Space. These are the shortcut definitions you wind up with in that case: Input Menu: Select the previous input source -- Command-Space Select the next input source in the input menu -- Option-Command-Space Spotlight Menu: Show Spotlight search field -- Control-Space Show Spotlight windows -- Control-Option Space (The only actions here were to check the box for the Input Menu shortcut in the table and then to press the button for "Restore Defaults") Note that there are shortcuts for both previous input language and next input language. If you only switch between two language keyboards in your list, you can just use Command-Space, however for a longer list of input languages you might want to ability to switch keyboards from either direction (cycling either up or down a list). Finally, you're probably used to using a regular French keyboard, like Anne. I switch to French input less frequently, so I find it easier to use a Canadian French input keyboard so I don't have to think about switching the position of Q and A or W and Z keys when I type, but so that I can still type accents easily. You can find a description of the differences in the Mail Archive pages for this list: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg32044.html (Using the Canadian French Keyboard for French Accents) Cheers, Esther --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
