

To do so, go to the Users & Groups preference pane, open Login Options (under the list of user accounts), then select the option to Show Input Menu In Login Window. If you don’t want to always use the default layout at login, you can enable the same input menu at the login window. That has its conveniences, but it also has the side-effect that the default system keyboard layout will be used at the login window when no account-specific settings are active. But when you go back to the document, then the keyboard layout you were using with it will be re-activated.įinally, you will notice layouts are applied on a per-account basis. That means you can switch away from that layout when you switch away from that document, using your main layout on other documents and in other apps. With this feature enabled, changing the keyboard layout will only do so for the currently active document. If you find yourself needing to switch between layouts regularly, then you might enable the option to Automatically Switch To A Document’s Input Source, which is also on the Input Sources tab. (You could try Control-Space and Option-Control-Space, instead). Note that those shortcuts may by default be set to Command-Space and Option-Command-Space-which are also the default hotkeys for Spotlight. You can also switch between these input sources using hotkeys: Go to the Shortcuts section of the Keyboard system preferences, select Input Sources (which only appears if you’ve enabled more than one keyboard layout) and then check the box next to the hotkeys. When properly set up, and with the input menu enabled, your keyboard layouts will be accessible from the menu bar.
