Keyboard Language Indicator Popup

OK to keep a long story short, the correct one in

System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Input Sources

is

Select the previous input source

(YES, the name of this feature is definitely misleading. It might select the previous input source on a short tap, but what it mostly does is show this useful popup - I definitely change it back to Cmd-space like it was in previous MacOS versions before Sierra.)

Select "Show keyboard viewer" from the input menu.

I've never seen anything like that. Whatever language you've selected is checkmarked in the input menu — that's how you tell what is currently selected.

athirdfoot wrote:

There used to be a pop up box that appeared in the middle of my screen saying the language selected when switching between keyboard input sources.

Does it really not show if you first hold down the Command/Apple key and then hold down the space key for a while? If not, try creating a new user account and see if it works again when logged into that.

athirdfoot wrote:

when attempting the same thing with a newly created user account it works in the new user account!

This probably indicates that you have a bad .plist in Home/Library/Preferences for your main account. The problem is figuring out which ones to trash. You might try the ones with systemuiserver and hitoolbox in their names.

You could try moving all of them to the desktop (they should just get regenerated on a restart). The one .plist you may want to be careful of is that for Mail, which has all the username password and other server settings that could be a pain to redo.

athirdfoot wrote:

I tried a reboot with all .plist files removed and still no luck.

That is odd. Perhaps a cache file is causing problems. There are various apps that can clean caches, I think one is Onyx.

Sorry, this one has me stumped.

What he's talking about, is this:

It's a transparent pop-up window that appears ONLY when Cmd + Space is hit. It took a couple clicks to turn it back on in Mountain Lion (10.8.2)--but it still exists.

What you have to make sure of, is that Spotlight is not currently using the shortcut, which it takes by default. When you enable more than one Input Source (in Language & Text), the shortcuts, seen here, become active:

However, you will ONLY, and I mean only, see the pop-up when you use the first shortcut--and Spotlight positively cannot be using the shortcut, or else it will show up as greyed out, like I said, by default.

TOODLES!!!!

Did you really mean to add a response to this discussion from 2 years ago? It sounds like maybe you were answering another more current question.