Disable Caps Lock Indicator on macOS Sonoma

SonomaisStipid wrote:

OK, seriously. Are you just trolling.

You think I'm trolling because I like something you dislike? Did I suggest you were trolling because you complained about the feature? No, I recognize that it's possible for people to have different preferences than me and still be rational, civil adults.

Of course, if you want to talk trolling, we could discuss your username.... ;-)

techgineer wrote:

Thank you for posting the solution instead of another opinion. For some reason I'm not allowed to mark your reply as helpful. Can anyone else comment as to why?

You can only mark two posts as "Helpful" in a given thread.

Barney-15E wrote:

techgineer wrote:

Odd. I haven't marked any posts as helpful in this thread.

You didn't create the post. Create your own and you can mark it Helpful or Solved.

There is the "Helpful" button under posts that people other than the OP can use. But, as I understand it, that also only allows two per thread.

techgineer wrote:

OK, I'm feeling stupider by the minute. I clicked on "reply" to reply to yochees' post and post a thank you. I don't understand why I wouldn't be able to mark yochees' answer as helpful.

As I noted, you can only use the "Helpful" button twice in a thread. So, either you have already done so and have forgotten or there is a glitch in the forum (definitely possible). But, if you reply and thank someone directly, then they know it's from you. If you just click on "Helpful", they may never even notice.

Just to set the record straight:

Yochees' answer is the first one after the OP, shown as "best answer". It has a link "view in context" that I clicked. In that view, the "helpful" button for is grayed out and unresponsive. When I hover over the "helpful" button on ANY other post, including your latest, the button highlights, indicating I can click it. I haven't marked any other posts as helpful. When I scroll through all of the posts on this thread and find yochees' on page 4, the button is also grayed out and unresponsive.

The helpful button is nice but really they need an answered button and a link on the 1st page that directs you to the answer. I think because a bunch of people marked his answer as helpful there is no way to mark it more helpful. It has already reached “helpful” status.

Betazero wrote:

The helpful button is nice but really they need an answered button and a link on the 1st page that directs you to the answer.

The post marked "Best Answer" is automatically shown directly under the original post. I don't know how much more obivious Apple can make it.

19JAAM65 wrote:

Great, there appears to be a solution. Can someone explain how to do this to a lay person who is not technologically adept. How does the unsavvy internet user do this?

The solution doesn't have anything to do with the internet. Basically, you're copying and pasting the text given in the "Apple recommend" answer into the Terminal and then rebooting your computer.There's nothing particular difficult about it. However, it is also not particularly difficult to mess things up rather badly if you do something wrong in Terminal. I generally recommend that people who aren't comfortable with Terminal don't go messing about. But, it's up to you. I imagine most people learn to work in Terminal by playing around.

Thank you! Really appreciate the "hand-holding" step-by-step instructions as it worked for me, too!

I did notice though that per your instructions, after I pasted the first text group and hit "Return" it asked for my password then, at that point, not after pasting the second Text Group as referred on the instructions.

I attempted a few times as I was nervous but went through with typing my password in after pasting the first Text Group and hitting enter. Then pasted the Second Test Group after that and then quit and restarted.

Many thanks my friend! ~W

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Have you noticed any glitches with the text cursor not appearing in certain apps when this flag is set?

See these threads for more discussion:

Sonoma: any way to disable input source s… - Apple Community

https://www.alfredforum.com/topic/21080-alfred-doesnt-show-the-text-cursor-in-macos-sonoma-if-the-redesigned-text-cursor-is-disabled/

I only get the text cursor issue when the flag for disabling the Caps Lock and the Input Source switcher is set. If I set the flag back to Enabled = YES, then I don't have any text cursor issues. Not all apps seemed to be affected by it, but I'm getting a growing list that are. So far the pop ups are more annoying, but I'm hoping to find a way to have the best of both worlds. :)

👍 I've got a WhatsApp group of passionate Apple business users, and they've all sung the praises of this terminal command.

The other big one is figuring out how to completely turn off Stage Manager (System Settings: Desktop & Dock)

I'm so annoyed by this caps lock notification. What makes it a "feature" if you don't want it? I'm okay with new "features" but who determines items to be a mandatory feature vs an option? PLEASE CREATE A DISABLE FEATURE or an OPT OUT for new features.

Hi yochees,

Thank you for posting this, that was very kind.

The problem type of fix is that this can potentially lead to future problems. Should Apple create their own fix for this, say a setting/toggle in the keyboard settings, they couldn't account for a user-initiated setting modification.

It likely won't be an issue, but people should keep it in mind.

I would suggest that re-running this and setting the boolean value to true could reverse this, but an Apple fix may completely change how the functionality is saved as a setting.

Thanks for a temporary fix though. Hopefully Apple fixes this.

dialabrain wrote:

IdrisSeabright wrote:

Work has been very stressful.

Sorry to hear that. Hope it stops.

Thanks! The two major NSF grants, the one minor federal grant and one other proposal, all due this week, are finally done. I love our faculty but it's a lot like herding cats sometimes.