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Big Sr 11.4, Imac. In MacMail, Messages, Word for Mac: when I press Ctr-Alt-Space, or when I try Edit "emoji and symbols," a panel/viewer appear for a moment-- maybe less than a second-- then vanishes. I cannot find a way to keep the viewer open and visible.
iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.14
Galluses wrote:
(I hope there is a next step, have no idea what it might be.)
You have some 3rd party system modification that is changing the default behaviour. These kinds of "tinker", "tweak", "clean up" tools are common.
Galluses wrote:
(I hope there is a next step, have no idea what it might be.)
You have some 3rd party system modification that is changing the default behaviour. These kinds of "tinker", "tweak", "clean up" tools are common.
Hi Galluses,
It looks like you're having issues viewing emoji on your Mac. If that's correct, let's try the following.
How to use safe mode on your Mac
Does this happen while you are booted to safe mode?
Cheers.
On macOS 11.4, the Emoji & Character viewer will remain on screen from the application it was launched until you switch to another application. That changes the application layer order causing the previous Emoji & Symbols panel to disappear from the screen. As soon as. you click on the application that launched it, the Emoji & Symbols panel will reappear as you left it.
This is exactly how the Emoji & Symbols panel has behaved over the last several years, so not a new phenomenon of Big Sur.
VikingOSX, you describe exactly what the Emoji & Character Viewer does NOT do. In any one program it fails to be present for more than a second. This has nothing to do with changing from one application to another. I did not mean to suggest this has to do with Big Sur, just tried to supply the context.
To be super clear: in Mail or in Word, or in any other text application (e.f. Messages) the Viewer appears for an instant, then vanishes.
I wish I could screenshot a video. (I've tried re-booting . . . it seems to be a defect that has emerged in the system.)
Thanks for trying.
Is this a clue? Thinking about my own description of the problem, I tried it in TextEdit (which I rarely use). In that one application, the viewer stays properly in place as it should!
Makes it all the more frustrating that I can't use the viewer it in Word or Mail or Messages. But if I really needed a symbol or emoji I could call it up in TextEdit and copy it.
What is the "Ctr" key? Do you mean "Control"? Harder question - what is the "Alt" key? Mac keyboard don't have one. There is an "fn" key, a "control ^" key, an "option ⌥" key, and a "command ⌘" key. While this forum happens to map Command + Control + Space bar to the Character Viewer, that is not a system-wide behaviour.
System defaults could be a couple of different things depending on what the actual keystrokes you are using. "Control + Option + Space" is defined in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Input Sources as "Select next source in input menu". "Option + Command + space" is defined in Spotlight as "Show Finder search window". Of course, you can change all of those. You might even have an "Alt" key if you are using a PC or 3rd party keyboard, but it should be mapped to "Option".
Thanks for correcting my terminology. I do mean "Control" by "Ctr" and I mean "Command" by "Alt."
With Control+Command+Spacebar, I can get the Emoji & Symbol Viewer to appear for a moment, but it vanishes at once. Same thing happens if I use "Edit" then "Emoji & Symbols." This happens in all text-using applications except Text Edit, where the Viewer remains visible as it should.
Apologies for the old PC terms, left over from many years ago.
etresoft wrote: While this forum happens to map Command + Control + Space bar to the Character Viewer, that is not a system-wide behaviour.
That really should work system wide, it's the shortcut which is normally found listed next to Edit > Emoji & Symbols.
Tom Gewecke wrote:
That really should work system wide, it's the shortcut which is normally found listed next to Edit > Emoji & Symbols.
So it is. I was only looking in system preferences. I have no idea about shortcuts. I know XCV, W, P, screenshot, and a handful of diacritics.
Re-booting in normal mode, it now appears that in Safe Mode the system corrected the problem, somehow: the Emoji and Symbols viewer now does stay visible as it is supposed to do.
Mysterious, but solved-- thanks to you and JCorHelps.
And I cannot reproduce the fleeting panel behavior that you report — neither on my M1 mini nor Intel MBA — each running macOS 11.4
Try JCorHelps' suggestion and see if the problem still happens while running in safe mode.
In safe mode, the Emoji and Symbols viewer DOES remain properly, in Word and in Mail.
(I hope there is a next step, have no idea what it might be.)
Thank you.
Thank youI Possibly it's my BetterTouchTool or Spam Sieve. Anyway, if it happens again I will see if save mode fixes it again.
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