murrayE
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Q: How get holding down letter pop up accents menu in El Capitan?
In OS X Yosemite, I could hold down a letter such as e and get a pop-up menu of accented versions. (In various apps and even in Finder when naming a file.)
This is no longer working in El Capitan (10.11.1).
How fix?
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), 3.4GHz Corei7, 16GB, SSD + 2T HD
murrayE
Level 1
(47 points)
leroydouglas wrote:
murrayE wrote:
I should add that when I do hold down, say the a key or the e key, everything freezes: I cannot delete that letter or save the file.
In some apps where the pop-up used to appear under Yosemite, now holding down the letter key just causes multiple copies of the letter to be entered. (Is that a clue?)
Yes that is a key.
the default behavior of the accent menu, use Terminal to enter the following command, press Return, and then log out and back in:
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true
in El Cap you may have to disable SIP About System Integrity Protection on your Mac - Apple Support
That worked! And without having to temporarily disable SIP. It did require logout and log back in to take effect.
Many thanks!
(The mystery remains as to how ApplePressAndHoldEnabled became disabled. It was enabled in Yosemite, and the Apple docs for El Capitan seem to suggest that this is the default behavior.)
