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Accents no longer work in any app after 12.2

Holding down a key to get the menu of accented characters no longer works, and makes the keyboard not work at all in that particular file. Doesn't matter if it's a Word file, email, or website, the accents menu doesn't appear and the keyboard stops working. I have to close whatever I'm in. Reopening the file or whatever makes it functional again--except that I can't input an accent. iMac from 2017, magic keyboard, OS Monterey 12.2.

iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 12.2

Posted on Jan 31, 2022 3:57 PM

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Posted on Jan 31, 2022 8:52 PM

Yogifluter wrote:

Thanks but now what happens is that letters repeat

That's rather odd. Normally to get letters to repeat (instead of showing accents) you run that command with "false" in place of "true".


You might try doing false, then restart, and do true and restart.

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Accents no longer work in any app after 12.2

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