The order of keyboard layouts in the input (a.k.a. flag) menu seems to be arbitrary: it's not the order in which I activated them, nor is the most used at the top of the list, which is how I would like it to be. Is there a way to rearrange them?
MacBook Pro 15", 10.12
The list in Keyboard Preferences is not in the order I activated them, nor is it in alphabetical or any other discernible order; nor is there any way to reorder them. Weird.
Truly a work of art:-)
Note that in iOS they do let you arrange the order of the "globe" menu items according to your desires. To ask Apple to copy this to MacOS, you can use
http://www.apple.com/feedback
The only way to achive something, I guess now (I am not having a mac with me while travelling), is to go to Keyboard in SystemPreferences, delete the keyboards then add them again in the order you want (the first comes on top).
Is there a way to rearrange them?
I don't think there's any way to do this. But see
Thanks. I guess I should have tried this before posting, but thought I recalled that I had activated the keyboards in the preferred order. One of the first things I always do after installing the OS is activate the ABC - Extended keyboard, which is the one I mostly use; but it was halfway down the list in the menu – with the two Chinese keyboards at the top – which was annoying.
So I tried again: deleted all keyboards except the default US, restarted, then activated the ABC - Extended keyboard, which was placed at the top position, above the US keyboard. So far so good (but how does it know I want this?). Then activated the Chinese keyboards, which were placed below the US keyboard. Okay. Went on to activate four other keyboards, which were placed in activation order below the Chinese keyboards. Okay. Except sometime during that series of activations (didn't notice exactly when), the Chinese keyboards were moved to the bottom of the list. Then activated Japanese, which was placed at the bottom, below the Chinese keyboards.
So the present menu order is fine, but I'm somewhat mystified as to why it is done like this. See below: On the left is the list in Keyboard Preferences, on the right is the Input Menu. The menu is in a good order, though based on frequency of use I would put the Chinese between the Devanagari and Tibetan; but there seems to be no way to do this. The list in Keyboard Preferences is not in the order I activated them, nor is it in alphabetical or any other discernible order; nor is there any way to reorder them. Weird. In many small but cumulatively annoying ways, Apple's traditional attention to detail is decaying.
(Among said annoyances is that when I compose a post in TextEdit, then copy and paste into this window, two extra returns are added between paragraphs – which I then must go through and delete. Why? TextEdit is an Apple app, after all….)
Anyway, thanks both for taking the time to respond.
Thanks, Tom. I saw that thread, haven't looked into it – doesn't address my problem – but probably will sometime.
How can I change the order of keyboard layouts in the keyboard menu?
