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Does anyone know where the pressandhold.app file is in Yosemite? I used this answer (How to add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion?) to customize mine, but lost the customizations upon upgrade. Now the System/Library/Input Methods folder is empty.
Thanks!
The characters included in the popovers are defined in property lists inside the /System/Library/Input\ Methods/PressAndHold.app/ bundle.
I was able to change à to y by editing /System/Library/Input\ Methods/PressAndHold.app/Contents/Resources/Keyboard-en.plist and logging out and back in.
(note the escape in "Input Method" if you're copy pasting)
<key>Roman-Accent-a</key>
<dict>
<key>Direction</key>
<string>right</string>
<key>Keycaps</key>
<string>a y á â ä æ ã å ā</string>
<key>Strings</key>
<string>a y á â ä æ ã å ā</string>
</dict>
The accented character selection when a key is held was one of the tiny things that changed in Lion. To disable it, run this in the Terminal:
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
I will admit, though, it is strange that there's a setting in System Preferences that only affects behavior accessed through a defaults write command.
Best Answer
Pressandhold.app should be in exactly the same place in Yosemite that it was in Mavericks.
I just checked on both my Macs that I upgraded to Yosemite.
/System/Library/Input Methods/PressAndHold.appexists exactly where it should.And to try to confirm whether this is a holdover from Mavericks (since both my Macs were upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite) I checked the Info.plist with the PressAndHold.app bundle. It lists "10.10" as the LSMinimumSystemVersion and "macosx10.10internal" as the DTSDKName both of which indicate Yosemite.
So please check that folder on your Mac again. I'd be very surprised if that folder was empty.