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Daily Trick 40. Input Source Selector (10.6)

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If you've mastered and used not only one language, but many of them, I believe you would want to have selections of input source and the input source switcher.

First of all, let me guide you to add more input sources for your Mac OS X 10.6.

  1. Open System Preferences and go to Language & Text section
  2. Select Input Sources tab
  3. Inside, there will be many languages input sources listed. Enable input source for the language by ticking the checkbox next to it
  4. Now if you click on the menubar flag icon (just next to Spotlight), you will be able to change your input source

Though now you can have more than one language of input sources, it will slow you down if you can't do the fast switching between input sources. In order to perform a quick input sources switch, you need to…

  1. Open System Preferences and go to Keyboard section
  2. From the sidebar pane, select shortcuts for Keyboard & Text Input
  3. The last two of the shortcut list displayed on the right pane are used to change your input source
  4. Assign the same keystrokes for them. If you are using language switching quite often, you can consider assigning Opt-Tab for them. Otherwise, Cmd-Shift-Space would be okay
  5. Lastly, whenever you want to switch to different input source, just press and hold the modifier keys (Opt for Opt-Tab or Cmd-Shift for Cmd-Shift-Space)
  6. You can perform an action like switching application, i.e. you can press Tab or Space many times to choose the input source

For a side note, if you only need to switch between two input sources, you can just press the keystrokes without the need of holding modifier keys.

(L). The screenshot of input source selector that I mentioned.

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i don't seem to get that input source selector you have a screenshot of.  any ideas why?

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Could you  help me, I cannot assign opt+tab combination, I can assign only Command+Space or Command+Shift+Space. Any other combination does not appear in the field. Do you know what is the problem?

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@urpwnd:

I think it's the new feature in Snow Leopard. I am not sure whether the feature shown on screenshot is there for Leopard.


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Most possibly is that you've already have the combination assigned to another action. You can try another key combinations that you feel convenient with.

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@Wendy I can't even assign a custom keystroke to that action. There's no such interface: I can only tick in the box for using standard Command+Space, but I can't select any other. How do I do that?

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