The character accent menu worked for me throughout the developer beta of High Sierra but has stopped working in the released version.
I've seen other reports about this around the net, but no solutions that worked for me.
Anyone? I do a lot of work with classical music and the ability to type diacritics quickly is important to me.
Thanks in advance,
Stu
MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, macOS High Sierra (10.13), late 2016 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD
I've spent some time on this trying all the suggested ways: add French or Spanish input keyboard, setting keyRepeat to OFF, etc etc.
what did it for me(I fixed this on my machine, and a co worker that brought this to my attention) was "defaults write NSGlobalDomain ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true" followed by a power cycle(I didn't try restart, I went the safer route and tried shut down instead).
My key repeat is set to one tick before "Fast" and my delay until repeat is set to 3 ticks after "Long"(I believe these our default) and only have US as my input source keyboard (not US -International).
Again, it was only after setting the flag in terminal for NSGlobalDomain ApplePressAndHoldEnabled followed by a power cycle did this get fixed consistently.
hopefully this helps others
This finally worked for me but only in safe mode until I turned off webroot a second time in regular mode. So crazy. Thanks to all of you.
I got this problem too, but after login in Safe Mode, and it worked, after restart and log in in Normal Mode, the accents popup it worked again.
Thanks for all replies.
Thanks, leroydouglas.
OS version version is High Sierra 17A365
Sure enough, the character accent menu works with the guest account, so it is something about my environment.
The repeat slider is off.
I tried removing all my login items as well as everything in ~/Library/LaunchAgents and ~/Library/LaunchDaemons. I know that this worked until sometime recently, so I also tried deleting any programs I could recall adding in the last couple of weeks. Rebooted after each change. No joy.
Stu
Thanks, Tom Gewecke,
I tried your suggestion about adding additional keyboards without success.
I can do the option key thing, but that's more shortcuts to memorize which is kind of a pain.
BTW, as noted elsewhere, this used to work, as recently as a couple of weeks ago.
Stu
I've tried every suggestion in these replies (and on other sites), without success.
Terminal commands (to disable, enable, delete) didn't work.
Enabling other keyboards didn't work.
Adjusted keyboard preferences off and on and slow and fast and nothing worked.
Any other suggestions or fixes that anyone has found?
I tried multiple accounts and don't have anti virus.
Couldn't attempt safe mode because I was working remotely and we have FileVault and firmware passwords set and if I reboot remotely, I lose wifi until an authorized user logs in.
On a side note, about 4 hours later, I got an email saying it was now working. Hadn't touched it since I sent the message but it suddenly started working.
Having the same problem. That was a great keyboard funcionality in MacOS and now it is gone. 😟
Worked. And I did not need to reboot. Thanks.
This worked for me.
Thank you!
Thanks, this solved the problem for me. [Typing the code in the terminal]
jeanimal wrote:
This finally worked for me
Glad to hear that. Webroot and similar apps are usually more trouble than they are worth.
Try going to system preferences/keyboard/input sources and adding Spanish or French and restarting.
You can also easily make accents via the standard option key shortcuts.
I have several accounts, and sometimes after a restart I inadvertently log on with my non-Admin account. The disappearing accent menu sometimes happens even if I've been in my Admin account for more than a day or two. My fix has been to log out (even if it's my Admin account), then when the log on screen appears click on the icon for the Admin account. If all else fails, a restart or even cold reboot (in my Admin account) always works for me.
Thanks for the suggestions. Playing with the keyboard repeat key sliders did the trick, though I guess this is a bug present in the latest High Sierra update.
High Sierra 10.13.4 (17E199).
Worked after login in Safe Mode and restart in Normal Mode.
Character Accent Menu not working in High Sierra?
