Problem with changing Input Source keyboard login page. Did I miss something

I bought my iMac in France in 2008 but needed a German keyboard. During the various updates up to now, it was every time (necessary and ) possible to change the keyboard settings up to the version of Mavericks. So I can only confirm your problem. Now it is still possible to change the keyboard on the login page - but just after the logoff the old french setting remains...

Perhaps there is a possibility to change the installation settings of the first os installation - my research for this was without success.

Some idea?

So hopefully Apple points out a quick solution.

Jörg

I tried your solution - but it didn't work on my iMac. At the end I tried another way - and it works:

When I change the input device keyboard layout (from French to German) at the login screen and logged in it works for this instance. When I logged out the old french setting appears.

So I made a new test. I started changing the the keyboard layout like before with the difference of an immediate shutdown without logging in.

The next reboot me offered the German keyboard setting!!!

Perhaps this could be helpfully for someone!

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I have the same issue. I'm Dutch and use Dvorak. I've just upgraded from Lion to Mavericks and the login screen keyboard lay-out keeps defaulting back to the Dutch layout. Annoyingly nobody in Holland even uses the Dutch keyboard lay-out, we always use US-International with Dead Keys (U.S. International - PC), so this keyboard lay-out would be wrong for everyone (and I've never before set it to Dutch).

I had no issues when I was on Lion or on my home-Mac which is still on Snow Leopard.

I've got the input sources menu on my login screen, it's just really annoying to have to keep changing the keyboard lay-out every time I log-out/boot/restart the computer.

I tried both solutions mentioned above but neither worked for me. Might this be a bug Apple?

So I'm shure there's a bug. What we found out just are workaround's. The solution from Faber didn't work also for me.

At a certain point I considered also to reinstall all... Sometimes it's the best thing to get rid of old stuff (obsolete settings and programs). With some luck the system could also be quicker afterwards...

What happens, wenn you add other input devices and select what you need before log in and reboot without logging in?

Ok that's interesting (about reinstall)!

I read an article about changes made by Apple concerning the new iWorks Suite. They don't support some old features anymore (http://www.giga.de/downloads/iwork/news/neue-iwork-dateiformate-sind-inkompatibe l-und-langsam/).

Jörg

Just for clarity: I'm on a MacBook Pro from Late 2011 (my work laptop). The only other Apple computer I own is a MacBook from Late 2008 (first Aluminium series), but I've not yet upgraded that.

Hello Jan,

I found this notice today - perhaps it's useful for you:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6049?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Jörg

I've stumbled over the same issue and solved it by altering the com.apple.HIToolbox.plist as mentioned before..

It really should work, but make sure you look into both /Library/Preferences and ~/Library/Preferences..

You should actually alter the com.apple.HIToolbox.plist located in /Library/Preferences because it is a global preference for you machine..The other one will be applied after you log in..

Also when you change the value in System Preferences, you are actually altering only the ~/Library/Preferences one, so that is why it helps not..

Thanks simekadam! I hadn't realised there were 2 versions of the file.

simekadam wrote:

You should actually alter the com.apple.HIToolbox.plist located in /Library/Preferences because it is a global preference for you machine..The other one will be applied after you log in..

I had some issues unlocking the file in /Library/Preferences to edit it (moving the file to my home folder and chown and chmod-ing it eventually worked), but once I had managed to get around that it worked!

Had the same issue on a 10.9.1 system, always setting keyboard layout to Belgian after each reboot.

1. Tried to edit /Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist as proposed by Faber

-> did not work; what I had in my file was not what you list in your post

2. Tried to change the keyboard layout at login page (even deleting all others, just keeping US), then restart without logging in, as proposed by JörgfromItaly

-> did not work

I finally made sure my system language was the expected one (in Terminal, sudo languagesetup) .

Then deleted the com.apple.HIToolbox.plist and rebooted.

This made the trick for me.

an easier way is to set it up how you want it in your account and then copy your user com.apple.HIToolbox.plist onto the system one, then reboot.

do this in terminal:

sudo cp ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist /Library/Preferences/

then restart your computer without going to the login screen (choose restart from the apple menu without logging out first)

Thanks Kevin, this worked for me