Keyboard and Character Viewer keep reappearing.

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Keyboard and Character Viewer keep reappearing.

TS3104 states that you just have to use the menus to close the keyboard and character viewers.

But this does not work. They are still appearing with authendicate dialogs.

Thanks,
S

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Jan 8, 2013 4:47 AM

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Answer 1

softwater

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Jan 8, 2013 5:13 AM in response to saschafromwien

Are you choosing 'Hide Character Viewer' from the menu?

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Answer 2

Tom Gewecke

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Jan 8, 2013 5:30 AM in response to saschafromwien

Have you tried trashing the .plists that have these apps in their names in Home/Library/Preferences?

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Answer 3

Jan 8, 2013 12:15 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Trashing the preferences plists seemed like a promising approach. Unfortunately, this only changed the position and size of the windows. I am following the instructions in TS3104, i.e. using the menus to close them.

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Answer 4

Jan 8, 2013 12:21 PM in response to saschafromwien

Thanks everyone for trying.

Here is the solution that worked for me (from another thread):

Kumar42

Re: Virtual Keyboard shows up on admin password prompt.

Dec 24, 2012 3:13 AM (in response to svkrzn)

svkrzn's final solution worked for me too! Thanks!

To clarify, the steps are -

With the password prompt closed, switch to the other language (ex: Devanagari) you used.
Reopen the password prompt (example: by doing "show password" in Keychain Access). The language will automatically switch to the default and the keyboard/character viewer won't appear.
Close password prompt
Switch back to original language (ex: US English).

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