changing default (login window) keyboard layout

alexander the great

I set up an old iMac for my Mom, but I had to replace the HD. When I did, I just copied my old one using Carbon Copy Cloner. This'll be nice when I go home for Christmas so that I can continue to work on my stuff. However, I use Dvorak as my main keyboard layout and I want her to use the standard USA keyboard layout. When I first installed the OS, it asked for what layout I wanted to use, now I don't know how to change it. The only reason I really want this is so that the login window will be the standard layout. I know that once she logs in her settings will take over. If you could help me, that would be great.



Thanks,

Alexander the Great

alexander the great

Could somebody move this to Genius Bar? That's where I meant it to go.



Thanks,

Alexander the Great

stupider...likeafox

You need to launch system preference as the root user. I've had to do exactly this for the same reasons. I'll google for the instructions I followed and post them in a mo.



There's a thread here: http://forums.macosxhints.com/showth...&threadid=9872



which basically says do this in the terminal

Code:

sudo /Applications/System\\ Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System\\ Preferences &







Do that, change the keyboard then log out and log back in. (The thread later claims this won't work but I'm reasonably sure that's what I did. There's a suggested workaround anyway if you have trouble.)

murbot

To the bar with you!

alexander the great

Thank you very much, it worked great. The '&' at the end messed up me entering my password, but when I entered it without it, everything worked as expected.



Alexander the Great

paul

or you could just make her password only numbers...

then the layout doesnt matter and you dont have to play with root...