Keyboard shortcuts changing between AZERTY and QWERT

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Agreed, I have this problem too, which appeared with High Sierra.

At the very least, it would be useful for it to be possible to disable switching the keyboard when pressing cmd.

In most cases this is only mildly inconvenient, but when I attempt to select all and press cmd+A on my azerty keyboard, it registers as cmd+Q, quitting the application I am currently using. This is extremely irritating.

Nouraliakin7 wrote:

with opening "show keyword viewer": when i chose any Arabic layout and press CMD button the keyword turn QWERTY, but when i press CMD in French layout, keyword still AZERTY.

I am puzzled by what you think has changed. I am using 10.11 El Capitan. Every French layout shows AZERTY when you press Command. Every Arabic layout shows QWERTY when you press Command. Which one of these did you think was different in the past?

In Sierra I see there is a feature where if you switch to Arabic right after using French, you can get AZERTY command by hitting caps lock. But this does not seem present in El Capitan or High Sierra. Very strange.

What keyboard layout are you using for Arabic?

Nouraliakin7 wrote:

just after updating

What did you update from?

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I am afraid that depends on how the keyboard layout is designed.

AFAICT all the Arabic ones that I see on my system work that way (even though one of them actually has AZERTY in its name). I don't know if that was intended or not.

You may want to send Apple feedback on this: http://www.apple.com/feedback

(they usually don't reply, unless extra information is required, they're supposed to read all feedback)

A quicker solution may be to create a new layout yourself. There are utilities that allow you to create new keyboard layouts (Ukelele is one, and it works in High Sierra; there are probably others).

You could make a copy of the Arabic layout and modify the command keys to match AZERTY.