At Login I have US keyboard but in Fact My real Keyboard is French.

At Login I have US keyboard but in Fact My real Keyboard is French.

So when I want to login on my Mac, I can't type my password,

cause the ML login by default set US keyboard (info set in right corner)


How do I set French Keyboard as default at Login?

so i can manage to type my login with no pain.


PS: I have done an unusual language setting, cause I leave abroad,

using daily 3 languages. So French keyboard with English language

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1), Processor 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Posted on Aug 30, 2012 5:00 AM

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Aug 30, 2012 4:53 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

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MY HARDWARE KEYBOARD IS FRENCH, WHEN LOGGED OUT, IT SETS TO U.S. VERSION.

- CONSEQUENCE: I CAN'T LOGIN, CAUSE I TYPE WRONGLY MY PASSWORD.


Hi Tom,

thank you for your answer,

but unfortunately the Login option as you described was already checked.

May be I didn't formulate my question or described the trouble properly.


As a Hardware, I got a French Keyboard, but I kept the software option,

to run US keyboard and Czech keyboard as well.

So Usually, when logged-in, I can shift from one to another whenever, using from time to time different languages.

To help me to type the right way, I keep a preview keyboard on screen which guides me which keys to type.


Now, when i am logged out, the default Keyboard remains the US one (keyboard symbol with US is displayed in the top corner of the log out screen)

As my admin password includes unusual characters (like symbols, ponctuation, or diacritics) It is hard for me to find out the right keys to press, to spell correctly my password. As i got in front of my eyes just the French keyboard hardware I always make same mistakes.


So, How To solve this issue once logged-out?:

- I need to have the default keyboard set to its French version

(How to do so?)

- or are other solutions existing?

(for example to have the possibility to bring up the framed virtual US keyboard)


Message was edited by: oli loli

Aug 30, 2012 5:09 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

the characters are quote (") but there is as well the fact that

the US keyboard is "QWERTY" and the French one is "AZERTY". (so A & Z are reversed keys among others)

When I am at login screen I tried the short cut Keys to switch for different language keyboards or select the Keyboard symbol on top right, but I could do so. It is disabled.


With previous OS X, I was facing a similar issue, but then we solved it and I could have the french keyboard set at login screen.

Typing the password once in a while, with in memory the US keyboard, is possible, but it doesn't concretly solve the issue. If i do not remenber where those keys are "hidden" in the french keyboard after some period of time.

And when I want to change for a new or more complex admin password, I will face again similar issue, unable to type correctly the password after log out.

Aug 30, 2012 6:16 PM in response to oli loli

oli loli wrote:


When I am at login screen I tried the short cut Keys to switch for different language keyboards or select the Keyboard symbol on top right, but I could do so. It is disabled.



That is very odd. If you actually checked the box for "show input sources on login screen" in system prefs/users & groups/login options, then you should be able to click on the flag and see an item called Other Input Sources, where you can select the French layout. Assuming of course that you have checked the box for French in system prefs/language & text/input sources.


With the US keyboard layout and a French keyboard, you should be able to make the quote character by typing Shift plus ù.

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