[m i k e]

I noticed today that the American flag (international symbol) randomly appeared in my menu bar. I was able to disable by going into the "International" settings but I don't like the idea that things are going on in Leopard without me doing anything. I feel like this happens periodically. The only thing I can think of is that maybe I hit a shortcut but I don't even think there is a shortcut to make the flag appear. Has anyone experienced the same thing or know why that may have happened? Thanks. I know it's not a huge deal but it's slightly annoying.

[Kevin]

My dock settings keeps getting reverted back. So I had the "size" locked, but the animation amount keeps changing. Esp when I log out or reboot.

It did that in 10.0 too. 10.5 has issues with preferences it seems.

[analogika]

Always so quick to blame Leopard...

Certain applications have ****ed with the input settings since the days of 10.0 - Corel Graphics Suite, notably.

Microsoft Office won't respect the system's input settings, either.

Watch when exactly that flag appears and see if you can tie it to certain applications being open or active in the foreground.

[Jacke]

The shortcut for changing input method is Cmd-Space; I often activate the Japanese input by mistake. Unless it's an app that's doing it, I'm guessing you're just hitting it by mistake.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by analogika 

Always so quick to blame Leopard...

I wasn't blaming anyone per-say. I was saying that *I too* have preference saving problems with 10.5. That mine ARE 10.5 specific. That this could be very well the case with his problem. My post wasn't overtly negative against 10.5 to the point it warranted such a reply.

[ghporter]

Do you have a problem with the flag itself, or that it shows up intermittently? The flag is just an indicator of your keyboard/input layout, and the U.S. layout is very different from other English layouts, so it's kind of important that you know what you'll get when you hit "shift-4" for example. In Tiger, the International Preferences pane's Input Menu tab gives you a check box to select whether or not you'll see what your selected input layout is. It takes some sort of action to change that-either your own actions to manually select the input layout, or some application changing it for you.

So, now that you're paying attention to the menu bar, is the input icon actually showing up randomly? If it is, do you have any apps that might change this for you? I doubt Leopard just gets a wild hair and changes it for the fun of watching your startled expression.

[TETENAL]

The flag is visible when there is more than one input method or the character palette selected in the input methods section of the international preferences. Turn all off except one input method (in your case US english) and it disappears.

Unfortunately that means that it will always reappear when you open the character palette from the command in the Edit menu. There is no way to avoid this afaik. This has been the case in Tiger already, so it's not a new Leopard issue.

[.Neo]

Originally Posted by TETENAL 

The flag is visible when there is more than one input method or the character palette selected in the input methods section of the international preferences. Turn all off except one input method (in your case US english) and it disappears.

Unfortunately that means that it will always reappear when you open the character palette from the command in the Edit menu. There is no way to avoid this afaik. This has been the case in Tiger already, so it's not a new Leopard issue.

It doesn't appear here when going to Special Characters.

[0157988944]

I got Airport preference problems... but thats a whole nother can o worms.

[imitchellg5]

Originally Posted by Jacke 

The shortcut for changing input method is Cmd-Space; I often activate the Japanese input by mistake. Unless it's an app that's doing it, I'm guessing you're just hitting it by mistake.

Command-Space is set by default to bring up Spotlight, not input.

[hempcamp]

Originally Posted by m i k e 

I noticed today that the American flag (international symbol) randomly appeared in my menu bar.

New requirement of the Patriot Act.

Just kidding. Hmm... I think Command+Space (which usually brings up Spotlight) for some reason brought up that for you instead, as mentioned above. It's rather funny that Apple clearly writes in the Help section that there is a conflict between the two keyboard shortcuts! (Check it out.)

See if it happens again randomly and check back in with what programs you were running at the time.

--Chris

[Jacke]

Originally Posted by imitchellg5 

Command-Space is set by default to bring up Spotlight, not input.

Heh, still on 10.3 here... What's the new shortcut for changing input in 10.4+?