i can no longer type accent marks by holding down a keyboard key

This can also occur with certain programs, does it happen with all programs you use?

A way to make sure it is enabled is: open Terminal, from Applications, Utilities, then in the Terminal window type, exactly,

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true

press Enter, logout and log back in.

The key should now do the accents.

Hi Thomas, not so early, it is almost 9:00 am here.

Did you see my second post? That takes you to a command line entry that should reset the operating system to invoke the keyboard accenting.

See your second response, so we are playing tag right now.

Good Afternoon,

I'm runinng a late 2013 15" MBP RD and I unfortuntely didnt ggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeetttttttt this to work (just to demonstrate what happens when i hold down a key. How frustrating! I simply loved this feature. Any thing else I can try?

Sami

P.S. I followed your directions to a T meaning that I did not restart my computer, I just logged out and back in. And now when I write in the code I get a "

-bash: -g: command not found" message.

Message was edited by: skarimhaddad

You could go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources and check Show input menu in men u bar to make it easy to switch keyboards and pickup the accented vowels.

You are very welcome, Thomas.

If you are a Brit you may find the UK keyboard works when the British one doesn't. See élite or crème for example