Interesting, I would have expected macOS to have this feature because Windows has supported window-specific keyboard layouts for what feels like forever. I don't use my Mac much nowadays, but gonna have to grab this just in case.
Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layout
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Re: Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layout
#12I type in 4 languages on my Mac (en/hu/de/ro) and 7 on my iPhone (+ru/cn/fr) So I guess I'm pretty much the perfect audience here. Every time I code I get mildly enraged by having typed é or ö instead of a semicolon. Will definitely give this a go. I really like the (lack of a) business model, too, I hope some people will appreciate your efforts. This was probably my favourite bit. All these small apps that somehow n…
I wonder how dramatic it is within latin languages. as you mentioned on macOS you only use latin typesets. For those things most annoying are spelling mess ups, but I mostly use English keyboard and long press when I need to write things like papanaşi (ro) or buñuelos (es). (but I get those red dotted lines).
It takes some getting used to, e.g. ö used in both Hungarian and German is in two different places for the two languages.
I do ctrl-space a lot, but very rarely use the long press feature, mainly because depending on the active keyboard, the numbers to press are different and it hinders me from being able to type blindly.
Edit: I adore papanași.
Re: Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layout
#13Awesome! Been looking for something like this for so long, thanks so much for making it!
Tried it and it seems to work for the most part, but one app where it would be really helpful to me is Ghostty.app, specifically the quick-terminal, and it seems that it doesn't currently handle that, which is unfortunate.
Re: Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layout
#14Punto Switcher for the new era!
It works well for EN->RU, but not really for EN->CN (or RU->CN).
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#15This seems like a giant security issue.
Just like any other app asking for accessibility permissions, no?
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#16Oh, this is a great idea! I've never realised that the keyboard layout I want correlates with the active app quite a lot!
Can we get per-team Slack support?
And an option to set the layout for all the Xcode versions, including the ones that will be installed in the future (using https://xcodes.app/)
Also, it doesn't seem to work with iTerm2 for me.
Re: Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layout
#17Yeah I want this. I acquired a keyboard for a language I’m learning and was disappointed that I couldn’t physically switch my hands between keyboards to use the other’s layout. I thought the computer would be smarter, mais non.
autokbisw solved the per-physical keyboard layout problem for me, switching between the Macbook's layout, a US keyboard, and a UK keyboard.
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#19I type in two languages and very frequently I don't notice that I am on the wrong layout, so I get a full line of gibberish before I notice. Got annoyed enough to build something. It keeps the right language ready per app and per browser tab, and if you mess up you double-tap Shift and it fixes the last thing you typed. I know layout switchers aren't new. The thing I couldn't find is that it remembers the language pe…
Thank you! I remember in my country we had the same app for DOS (before those things were called apps) and it was awesome! Forgotten how convenient that it is to not think about switching layouts.
Considering half of the time layout switch somehow does not do anything on the first press.
Re: Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layout
#20This is super neat for polyglots (of which I'm not one, yet) but one little thing: My partner immediately flagged that your demo (EN->HB) flips the cursor to be in the LTR position in the run rather than the RTL one.
The most minor of things, but I now can't unsee it.