Hi Ramy, >From your post I understand that you wish to change keyboard layout on the >fly. Is this correct? If yes, it is possible to do so. I do it all the >time, and I use 4 different language layouts on my mac.
Go to system preferences, choose keyboard button, and from the tabs presented to you select "shortcuts" tab. Then You will find two tables. The first table is shortcuts category table. Interact with it and locate "input sources". Stop interacting with the table and move to the shortcuts keys table immediately to the right. Interact with it and you will see that there are two columns in the table. The left hand side column contains checkboxes which enable or disable a particular shortcut key combination that's already there. You will find the pre-assigned shortcut key combinations in the right hand side column. There are two rows here: select the previous input source, and underneath, select the next input source. The select next input source will take you through all the possible keyboard layouts you have enabled on your mac. In my case, as I press the shortcut keys for select next input source, each time I press it, Voiceover will announce the next keyboard layout, in my case I can go through all 4 keyboard layouts I have enabled. The select previous input source shortcut is very helpful because if you work with two languages in one document, you can use this shortcut to change between the two keyboard layouts you are currently using. Ramy, I have to warn you though at this point that the pre-assigned shortcut key combination for select next input source and select previous input source clash with the spotlight shortcut key combinations. That's why when you choose input source in the first table in system preferences and then move to the table of the shortcut keys in the second table, the checkbox for these shortcuts is off. You can either choose to change the shortcut for the spotlight first and keep the default for keyboard layout selection, or reassign the shortcut keys for the latter. This is perfectly possible. Ok, to change the shortcut key combination, find the second table which lists the pre-assigned shortcut keys. As I've said, the left hand side column contains the checkboxes to enable or disable the combination. The right hand side column will tell you the keys already there. Interact with the cell in this column and vo+right arrow once to hear the shortcut keys and also for Voiceover to announce that it is selected. Only then can you put in your own key combination here. Literally, press the keys you want to use for your shortcut. Move away from the field and back to it to ensure that you have got the keys you want. You should now have your new shortcut. If you mess things up, don't panic,: In the window with the shortcuts tab selected, you will find the button to reset everything to defaults, and you can start again. Make sure that the checkbox enabling the shortcut is on. Hope this helps Andrew > On 16 Jan 2017, at 11:27, Ramy Moustafa <ramy.moustaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all: > > Really I know that this subject may be not important for some people > here, but in some countries it's so important to change between 2 > languages on the fly. > for me, SOme times I need to rename a file or folder and make it's > name in Arabic not English, even whey writing long documents, there > are situations where I must use 2 languages. so, the only way now to > do this is to go to the extrus and look for the keyboard and change > it. it's really so complicated and took time to achieve this. I read > many many times and can not find a way to make key compination like > in windows to change language. so I need your help on how to do this > > Thanks in advance > > > -- > Ramy MoustafaSaber > Music instructor @: > Faculty ofmusical education > Music arranger and Sound engineer @: > Harmony Recording Studio > https://www.facebook.com/HarmonyRecordingStudio.eg > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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