What is Tiswitcher?

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What is Tiswitcher?

I found this Tiswitcher on my activity monitor.
No idea what is it or what is it from, it shows 64bits.
probably from snow leopard itself, out of curiosity.

anyone know what cause it to be there?
I tried checking language and text side, but incorrect.

mbp 2.66Ghz(Early 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Sep 18, 2009 9:06 AM

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Answer 1

micp

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Sep 18, 2009 9:21 AM in response to jpma

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/TextInput.menu/ Contents/SharedSupport/TISwitcher.app

Looks like system.

My best guess - SL now allows features that used to be available by using the international input to now be used as a service, hence the always running.

Just a guess.

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Answer 2

jpma Author

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Sep 22, 2009 9:30 PM in response to micp

so you have it to on your activity monitor all the time?

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Answer 3

Oct 2, 2009 1:34 AM in response to jpma

I got that too on 1 of my macs (upgraded from 10.5 to 10.6)

Seems like a permanent backgroud process to me - but would be great to get more informations on that.

Best Regards
fidel

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Answer 4

jpma Author

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Nov 22, 2009 9:47 AM in response to fidel-castro

i found out that whenever you have shortcut keyboard set for the language the Tiswitcher will pop up on activity monitor.

it's normal.

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