In Lion OSX, changing the keyboard layout "Input Sources" setting in the "Language & Text" only changes the setting for the current user. Is there a way to populate the setting to all existing, and also all future new users to the same set of language keyboard layouts?
MacOS – How to set “Input Sources” for all users at the same time
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Best Answer
The default input source is set in
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.HIToolbox.*.plist(where*issystem_profiler | grep 'Hardware UUID').You could either copy the file to other acccounts:
sudo cp ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.HIToolbox.*.plist ~/Users/username/Library/Preferences/ByHost/.Or add it to the User Template directory so that it will be included by default on new accounts:
d=/System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/ByHost; sudo mkdir -p "$d"; sudo cp ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.HIToolbox.*.plist "$d".Note that the UUID will have to be changed if the file is copied to another computer.
You can view or edit the property list in a text editor by converting it from binary to XML:
f=~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.HIToolbox.*.plist; plutil -convert xml1 $f; open $f -a TextEdit.