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I'm basically using US keyboard as my default, but I also have enabled Czech (QWERTY), which has quite different layout for when I need those special characters.

The problem is, that in the past few days whenever I put focus in a password field in Google Chrome, it automatically switches from the US to Czech and I can't switch back, as it is grayed out.

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But once I click out of the password field, I can change it back without any problems. What could possibly cause this? I'm using OS X 10.6.6 on Macbook Pro if that's of any relevance.

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In System Prefs > Lang & Text > Input Sources, do you have "Use same in all documents" or "Allow different for each document" selected? – mankoff Jan 24 '11 at 1:38
@mankoff: "Use the same one in all documents", but it does the same thing for both options. The problem is that I can't change it when the password field has focus, but once I click somewhere else, I can change it back. – Jakub Arnold Jan 24 '11 at 2:01
While in Chrome, try a cmd+shift+delete, clear all passwords (for all amounts of time), cookie data, history, etc. Does this change anything? Does the same behavior happen in Safari? – y3sh Jan 24 '11 at 19:57

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I've had weird input-switching behavior before when the keyboard shortcut to switch input sources was the same as something else I was using, like Quicksilver. Try disabling or changing the relevant shortcuts in System Preferences (under Keyboard & Text Input).

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I'm having the same problem. I ended up just disabling the other two layouts and the problem stopped. Certainly frustrating, when you can't figure out why you're typing gibberish.

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