OK, I’m not sure what is up with my installation, but it used to be that if I hit “Caps Lock” twice, it would switch input mode,s and then there was another command to bring up the emoji viewer.
All of this broke with the MacOS 26 Tahoe upgrade. The Input menu no longer appears in the menubar
And the Toggle in System Settings > Keyboard > Press 🌐 > Emoji & Symbols
Also the Ctrl-Space The keyboard flips between keyboard modes don’t work reliably in Brave, but work when focused in the terminal. It is also slow and takes a second or two to start. And the convenient double hit, the CAPS LOCK no longer works. Sigh
And bringing up the Emoji viewer is now 🌐 + E which is a little strange.
There is a nuclear option, which is to blow away the reset with:
defaults delete com.apple.HIToolbox
killall SystemUIServerThis did fix the lack of the Input menu in the menu bar, and it is still locked now, but it did fix pressing CapsLock quickly to get to English. The bug here seems to be that in some applications, it won’t display the window anymore, and for things like iTerm, you have to hit a bunch before it shows the menu.
Sigh. And also, clocker and monitorcontrol are now broken again and do not show in the menu bar, so it does seem like the menu bar stuff is pretty broken.
But I do have these things working:
- Emojis. Both 🌐 and 🌐+e work to get them
- Input Sources. Ctrl-Space sometimes works and sometimes shows a pane indicating the state. I turned off some of the Accessibility > Keyboard > Keyboard Navigation because I thought using the Control key was the issue, and this seemed to help. The Input Source does come up, but it is very slow, like 0.75 seconds, so be patient when using it, and then sometimes it just doesn’t come up. Sigh.
- Input Source on Menubar. Can’t get this to work
- Input Source changed to English. A quick tap of Caps-Lock works
Some of this could be related to Accessibility because sometimes I see a strange blue outline around windows
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