Recently I've noticed that my keyboard input source keeps reverting back to US keyboard layout. I use a Portuguese keyboard, and every time I start my mac (OS X 10.8.3) the layout has changed to US. I change it back to Portuguese, until the next restart...
Any idea on how to fix this?
Thank you for your help.
Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3), MacPro 2x2.66 Ghz (work) | iPhone 3GS | iPad WiFi
Looks like I was wrong. The problem is not fixed at all. A couple of days latter the keyboard layout reverted to US. I decided then to take your second advice and trashed the com.apple.systempreferences.plist file, and it seemed to work for a few days, but I am now back on US keyboard layout. So what ever is causing this, is not fixed. Any idea on what that may be?
Thank you for your help.
Looks like I was wrong. The problem is not fixed at all. A couple of days latter the keyboard layout reverted to US. I decided then to take your second advice and trashed the com.apple.systempreferences.plist file, and it seemed to work for a few days, but I am now back on US keyboard layout. So what ever is causing this, is not fixed. Any idea on what that may be?
Thank you for your help.
Please confirm:
1. You have selected Portuguese in System Preferences / Language & Text / Input Sources.
2. System Preferences / Language & Text / Language has Portuguese at the top.
You can try trashing com.apple.systempreferences.plist. It's in User library (not the root level library).
Select the kb you want, then try a PRAM reset.
After resetting NVRAM or PRAM, you may need to reconfigure your settings for speaker volume, screen resolution, startup disk selection, and time zone information.
This info from: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
Thank you for reply.
I've just tried the PRAM reset (twice), and no luck. After the restart the keybord reverts to US.
Could this be a damaged preference file?
I had selected Portuguese in System Preferences / Language & Text / Input Sources. I do not want the mac OS interface in Portuguese.
Decided to try set System Preferences / Language & Text / Language has Portuguese at the top and reselect the Portuguese in input sources. Restarted and it worked. Then changed the language back to English and kept the Portuguese input source. After a couple of restarts the problem seems to be fixed. I am now back to my normal setup, English interface and Portuguese keyboard.
Thanks for your help.
I'm still having having this issue. After a few days of setting the Portuguese keyboard layout, I'm back on US Keyboard. Could this be caused be some third-party software? I would appreciate any help.
Thanks.
PS. Whish Apple would allow users to un-mark questions as answered. A software problem tends to be difficult to evaluate, and really be sure that it is fixed.
You could start a new question, to get the attention it deserves as being addressed only temporarily.
Just tried one more solution, suggested in a similar post here. Deleting the "com.apple.HIToolbox" preference file (and related temp versions). If it doesn't solve the problem I will do that, start a new question. This problem seems to be affecting many users, but with different characteristics.
Anyway, thanks for your help.
My keyboard layout input source keeps reverting to US
