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Input source (input language) changes incorrectly

Snow Leopard finally has this beautiful feature to save the input source state for every application! I've missed this very much. But... It doesn't work for me correctly.

The problem:
SnowLeo doesn't remember the input source for every application and changes randomly. Here's example: I'm opening Safari, Mail and TextEdit (all native Leo apps), writing in English in Safari + Mail and in Bulgarian in TextEdit. When switching applications the input language doesn't stay the same - after TexEdit , Safari must stay with English, but I'm writing in Bulgarian. And so on.

What I've tried:
As I said, this happens totally random, I've spent a LOT of time trying to find out some logical pattern or something, but with no luck. I tried to switch languages with mouse only, to disable the keyboard shortcut, to change the language (I've tried Canadian I think), to use different applications, to quit (almost) every process, different account an even different MacOS install on a external USB HDD!!! Funny, but on the fresh installed OS I had the same bug for 10-15 min. and then (after the same tests as before) it somehow disappeared (I think). The same was with the different account on my original HDD - the first time the problem was here, then it just wasn't here. TOTALLY unusual and with no logic at all!!!

I have some friends with Macs and everyone of us is using English and Bulgarian input layouts. And Nobody has a problem except me! 😟

I have 15 years of computer experience (3 of them with Macs) and I'm working as a System administrator, so it's natural for me to troubleshoot all kind of problems, but after month I gave up on this! 😟

The MacMini and the MacOS are both legal with nothing strange connected.

Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.6.2), C2D 1.83GHz | 4GB | 80GB+320GB | ComboDrive | Aluminium Keyboard | Magic Mouse | Samsung 206BW 20"

Posted on Feb 1, 2010 1:52 PM

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Mar 7, 2010 11:58 AM in response to Baby Thomas

Yesterday I've made a fresh reinstall of Snow Leopard (+ update to 10.6.2 via Software Update). I've made a new user and tried the input switching between Safari, TextEdit, iTunes, Dictionary. It just doesn't work! Fresh MacOS, fresh user, only Apple software - no strange softwares, no strange settings - just as is, out of the box!
Ideas anyone? 😟

Apr 20, 2010 7:32 AM in response to Baby Thomas

I also have the sound input sources going haywire in Snow Leopard on my MacPro. Just now, I was in iChat having a video chat with my brother. The sound input is my external speakers. He wanted to listen to a video on his end, so he muted iChat and for a moment, he was muted, but then suddenly I could hear his sound very loudly and I couldn't turn it off on my end--not even muting my own sound. I had to open System Preferences and select the source and then it worked.

It seems almost every morning when I wake my Mac, my sound input has switched from what it was to a different input and I have to switch it back.

Jul 16, 2010 7:01 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

I use 2 keyboard layouts : canadian french for most of my applications (Pages, Microsoft Word, etc) and US English for Photoshop because most Photoshop keyboard shortcuts don't work in canadian french.

The problem is that even if I set Photoshop to US english, it reverts to Canadian French. It usually happens when I switch applications or hide Photoshop and bring it back up again. It is very annoying and the only way I found to stop this, is to turn off "Allow a different one for each document" in the Input Sources preferences pane. I thought the purpose of this option was to assign a different input source or keyboard layout to different applications.

Input source (input language) changes incorrectly

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