I have two active keyboard layouts – US english and russian. I have russian as my primary system language and the option "allow different input language for different documents" is active. But when I open any app keyboard automatically switches to russian, while I want it to be english by default. Is there any way to change the default keyboard layout without changing system language?
MacOS – Change main keyboard layout in OS X
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Best Answer
When I tried enabling the setting (Input source options: Allow a different one for each document), new windows seemed to just use the current input source.
Anyway, you could try running
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/Setup\ Assistant.app/Contents/MacOS/Setup\ Assistantand selecting US as the default input method. (You have to go through the steps of creating a new account, but you can delete it later.) It modifies at least/var/root/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.HIToolbox.*.plist.If that doesn't work, try running
sudo languagesetupand selecting English, orsudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist AppleLocale en_USand restarting.