Kenneth Collins1
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Q: Cannot Type in Launchpad

If I activate Launchpad on my MacBook Pro, I can type in the first few letters of an application's name to find its icon. On my iMac, it doesn't take the keyboard input at all.

 

It is too hard to find the application by inspection, because Launchpad produces a visual jungle of icons spread over many pages, all applications have the same importance (uninstall is just as important to Launchpad as my word processor is), organizing them is manual and tedious, and "folders" of icons can only go one level deep. So I want to use Launchpad's command-line feature to find applications.

 

How can I fix Launchpad to enable the typing feature?

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Mid-2007

Posted on Nov 17, 2012 11:40 AM

by Steven Slupsky,Solvedanswer
Steven Slupsky Steven Slupsky
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Thanks for the tip Devvyn!  I was growing more and more frustrated with this irritating bug. 

Posted on Apr 11, 2014 6:35 AM

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  • by tucsondon,

    tucsondon tucsondon Nov 18, 2015 10:30 AM in response to Devvyn
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    Nov 18, 2015 10:30 AM in response to Devvyn

    Thank you! Worked like a charm

  • by hk richard,

    hk richard hk richard Apr 22, 2016 1:47 AM in response to G. K. Chesterton
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    Apr 22, 2016 1:47 AM in response to G. K. Chesterton

    I agree

    was a decent and relevant post

    I use launchpad all the time , works great until I just lost the ability to type, but I can still use the (microsoft) mouse scroll.

    I am using El Capitan, so is not just Mountain Lion

     

    The fix for me - thanks to the post - was hit the tab a few times and that cleared it

    I guess a re-start may have done too

     

    Launchpad is great, long may it continue for us mere mortals to use

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