Holding down a key to get accent choices has quit working for me.
It was working day before yesterday. In the interests of complete information, it no longer works for me at all. Not in Pages, Text Edit, Mail, Safari, or Notes. Is there a system wide master switch? The keyboard commands do work. Option+ e then e gives me é, which is what I want, and turning on the French keyboard works, but what happened to the hold down option?
Thanks, Owen
This Terminal command will activate the feature of holding down the e key to get this menu:
In the Terminal enter
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true
followed by the Enter or Return key.
The downside is that disables the ability to hold down those particular keys for multiple entires.
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Please triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
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Hi artdiva28
Welcome to Apple Discussions
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steve359 wrote:
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Try the Firefox SafeMode. <br />
''A troubleshooting mode, which disables most Add-ons.'' <br />
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[[Image:FirefoxSafeMode|width=520]]
''Once you get the pop-up, just select "'Start in Safe Mode"''
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[Error -2096 message when opening QuickTime for Windows in Compatibility Mode|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1875]
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