Timeline for How to add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion?
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| Jan 9 at 17:00 | comment | added | G M | Where is this feature in MacOS Montery? | |
| Dec 13, 2022 at 18:07 | comment | added | WGroleau | If my comment inspires you to disable SIP and change your pop-up, _Surprise!_—Apple is going to change it back with Software Update. Grrr! | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 17:14 | comment | added | Benjamin R | @アリスター AKA not a feature. Hiding this sort of thing behind SIP is beyond stupid. How on earth does this affect the security of someone's device? It's less about integrity for the sake of the user than it is to make life easier for Apple. Damn, I hate what that company has become. Press And Hold is such a killer feature, and they break the ability to extend it all instead of implementing the proper solution of adding a safe, GUI-based interface to extend it. For such an extremely profitable company it's truly disgusting. | |
| Feb 12, 2021 at 10:40 | comment | added | Fabien Snauwaert |
in MacOS 10.14.2 (Mojave) the file is /System/Library/Input Methods/PressAndHold.app/Contents/PlugIns/PAH_Extension.appex/Contents/Resources/Keyboard-en.plist. Remember you need to disable System Integrity Protection for this to work.
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| Feb 18, 2020 at 1:31 | comment | added | WGroleau | … (cont'd) you can then edit the read-only version, and reenable SIP. | |
| Feb 18, 2020 at 1:29 | comment | added | WGroleau |
@masukomi, Catalina breaks your process by having read-only files and writable files in separate directories, and then using "firmlinks" to make them look like they are in the same place. If your "Keyboard-en.plist" is in the writable area, you can edit it without disabling SIP. Unfortunately, there is a file by that name in both areas, and the read-only version overrides the writable version. In fact, if I DELETE the read-only version, the pop-ups do not exist! Solution: csrutil enable --without fs and then after reboot, sudo mount -uw / cont'd…
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| S Jul 27, 2016 at 23:53 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
escaped "Input Methods" so anyone copy/pasting the structure into terminal would get to the folder in one go
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| Dec 14, 2015 at 4:05 | comment | added | masukomi | I've documented the full process here including temporarily disabling System Integrity Protection. | |
| Nov 12, 2015 at 16:10 | comment | added | アリスター |
@MichieldeMare That’s because of System Integrity Protection, a new feature in OS X v10.11 El Capitan that makes it impossible for even root to write to system folders. As noted in the Wikipedia article though, it can be disabled.
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| Oct 16, 2015 at 7:21 | comment | added | Michiel de Mare | It seems that this file is no longer editable in El Capitan... | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 19:28 | comment | added | Nathan Beach | @jhabbott i wanted to do the same thing and just added it under the lower case "s" for "squared". also, no need to log off / on (in Mavericks at least). this solution is just awesome - trying to think of other things to use it for. | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 17:15 | comment | added | jhabbott |
I've tried to use this to add squared and cubed characters for press-and-hold on 2 and 3, but I don't know the dictionary key names for the plist. I've tried <key>2</key>, <key>Number-2</key>, and <key>Roman-Accent-2</key> but none of these worked. Is there a list of possible key-names somewhere?
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| Sep 10, 2012 at 3:26 | comment | added | Cajunluke | This answer cannot be voted up enough times. | |
| Apr 22, 2012 at 18:27 | comment | added | stuffe | And it goes a little something like this.... i.sstatic.net/Kyx2v.png :) | |
| Apr 20, 2012 at 12:50 | comment | added | Tom Gewecke | @stuffe Let us know how it goes. I think the possibilities are enormous, e.g. m10lmac.blogspot.com/2012/04/… | |
| Apr 20, 2012 at 11:11 | comment | added | stuffe | Wow, I missed this question until now. I will be playing around to see if I can turn something like ~ into a list of my favourite Emoji or special keyboad characters :) | |
| Mar 28, 2012 at 14:56 | comment | added | Debilski | ‘Input Methods’, ‘PressAndHold.app’…? It couldn’t have been any more obvious. | |
| Mar 27, 2012 at 12:42 | vote | accept | houbysoft | ||
| Mar 21, 2012 at 16:57 | comment | added | Tom Gewecke | Wow, lots of people have been trying to figure this out since at least last July. Thanks! | |
| Mar 21, 2012 at 14:17 | comment | added | Mathias Bynens | How do you keep on finding these hidden gems? Are you an OS X engineer? ;) | |
| Mar 21, 2012 at 13:27 | history | answered | Lri | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
