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Keyboard Viewer is small

My Keyboard Viewer shrunk. I can see the RED X (close) and YELLOW - (shrink) buttons but not the green button. How do I get it back to full size?

I use it for foreign languages, so I'm lost without it.

Thanks,

Tom

MacBook Pro 2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.7.1), Apple 30" Display, iPhone 4 & , iPad 64/3G

Posted on Oct 4, 2011 5:46 PM

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Posted on Oct 4, 2011 6:11 PM

Drag its bottom right corner outward to enlarge the window.

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Oct 5, 2011 10:04 AM in response to eww

It is working for me too by dragging the left or the right side. No need to search for a corner. But perhaps you could try to remove the preference file out of your User Preference folder: com.apple.KeyboardViewer.plist


In Terminal you enter the following command and you hit <enter> :


rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.KeyboardViewer.plist


rm means "remove". The rest is clear I hope :-)



marek

Oct 6, 2011 6:04 AM in response to Tom4rd

I cut & pasted your command as I couldn't find " ~ "


It was much easier to find & remove when the plists were in the library.



:-) But now you have your Keyboard Viewer working. This little tool is just to find "weired" characters on your board. In German layout the ~ (tilde) is found by OPTION + n then a space. On American Keyboard it is found SHIFT + ` (the first key to the right of the left shift key).


Apple does not want beginners to play around with the System files. If you are looking into the threads here, you certainly understand why.


The .plist files are in the Library folder. You have three of them: in the root folder, in /System folder, and in your home folder.



marek

Keyboard Viewer is small

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