Comments on: OS X Layout for German Umlauts on US Keyboard

By: humpaaa

humpaaa — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:09:47 +0000

Hi Jan,

bei mir taucht das Keyboardbundle auch nicht auf. :-(

irgendwas ist da krumm.

Aljoscha/humpaaa

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:19:10 +0000

Not being able to uncheck all genuine layouts? Yes. I think that's a safety measure on Apple's side against broken keyboard layouts.

I installed the layout on my system as described right after a fresh install and it worked without a problem.

By: PRR

PRR — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:10:01 +0000

Tested the bundle, but for some reason it does not work on my MBP/10.6 — the USGerman does not appear in the language list. Only if I extract the keylayout file from the bundle and put it to /Library/Keyboard layouts, it appears as “USGerman”.
Also, I cannot uncheck all Apple genuine layouts leaving USGerman as the only one. Is it the same with you?

By: Snow Leopard | nebelschwa.de

Snow Leopard | nebelschwa.de — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:46:23 +0000

[...] Update auf 10.6.1 hat keine Verbesserung gezeigt, immer noch das gleiche Problem, allerdings war Jan Varwig so lieb und hat ein neues Keyboardlayout gebastelt und zur Verfügung gestellt, mit dem alles [...]

By: Steffen

Steffen — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:27:12 +0000

I found exactly the same bug, and it totally freaked me out, that everytime i needed to enter my password an error occured or I had to manually delete the com.apple.HIToolbox-File and re-login.

Thanks a lot for the bundle, works like a charm.