MacOS – Input Sources Menu not working

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I recently updated to Sierra. Now the Input Sources Menu isn't working. My 2 source are listed (US & Unicode) but selecting them does nothing. The checkmark doesn't move, the menu title doesn't change, and the keyboard function doesn't change.

Additionally, the "Show/Hide input source name", "Show Emoji & symbols", and "Show character viewer" menu options tend to just disappear from the menu and stay gone until reboot.

Any idea what would cause this, and/or how to fix?

Best Answer

I believe I have fixed it. Based on some pages I found, I ended up deleting some prefs:

rm ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.HIToolbox*
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox*

After rebooting, the menu now acts normally. If no other problems crop up soon, I'll mark this as answered.

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Try this fix which Apple published when the keyboard viewer and character viewer used to disappear in 10.5:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1896?viewlocale=en_US

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Another thing you could try would be to lock ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.menuextra.textinput.plist in Finder. (OS X performs atomic saves on preference files so chmod 600 wouldn't work.)

At least on my account the file contains just a ModeNameVisible key:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>ModeNameVisible</key>
    <false/>
</dict>
</plist>

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