{"id":266,"date":"2020-08-09T18:27:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T18:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagegeek.com\/lgwp\/?page_id=266"},"modified":"2021-01-07T13:50:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T13:50:30","slug":"installing-mac-keyboard-layouts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/languagegeek.com\/lgwp\/keyboards\/installing-mac-keyboard-layouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Mac Keyboard Layouts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Download the keyboard you want to use by finding <em>Mac Keyboard<\/em> in the download table. By clicking on this link, the\u00a0<strong>Save File<\/strong>\u00a0process will begin. Remember where you save it! The desktop is a convenient location.<\/li><li>Unzip by keyboard layout by either simply double clicking the zipped file. Some browsers might unzip it automatically. Clicking on the layout file <em>will not<\/em> install the keyboard automatically, there are more steps! There may be one or two files (with the same filename but with different extensions<strong>\u00a0.keylayout<\/strong>). <\/li><li>In the Finder, choose\u00a0<strong>Go\u00a0<\/strong>from the menu at the top of your screen. Select <strong>Computer.<\/strong> Choose <strong>Macintosh HD<\/strong> \u2192\u00a0<strong>Library<\/strong>. If you don't see \u2018Library\u2019 in that menu, try holding down the Option-key, that should make \u2018Library\u2019 appear. <\/li><li>In the Finder window, scroll down to find\u00a0<strong>Keyboard layouts<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Drag the keyboard layout file or files you saved earlier into the\u00a0<strong>Keyboard layouts<\/strong>\u00a0list. <em>Do not<\/em> drag over the entire folder which contains the keyboard into your library, only the contents of the folder.<\/li><li>Log off the computer or restart it.<\/li><li>Open\u00a0<strong>System Preferences >Language and Region<\/strong>. Click the\u00a0<strong>Keyboard Preferences<\/strong>\u00a0button at the bottom.<ul><li>Click the\u00a0<strong>Input Sources<\/strong>\u00a0tab at the top.<\/li><li>Click the\u00a0<strong>+<\/strong>\u00a0(plus) sign at the bottom left to \u2018add a keyboard layout\u2019.<\/li><li>Select\u00a0<strong>Others<\/strong>\u00a0in the left-side pane, this should display a list of keyboard layouts which includes the one you are looking to activate. Select the keyboard you want and click\u00a0<strong>add<\/strong>. Don\u2019t worry if the message says \u2018Keyboard layout not available\u2019, just ignore this.<\/li><li>The layout is now ready to use.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>To access the key layout, click on the flag at the top of your screen. Select the keyboard layout from the list.<\/li><li>The keyboard may be listed under either its Native, English, or French name. Please check through the list for alternate names and\/or spellings.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download the keyboard you want to use by finding Mac Keyboard in the download table. By clicking on this link, the\u00a0Save File\u00a0process will begin. Remember where you save it! The desktop is a convenient location. Unzip by keyboard layout by either simply double clicking the zipped file. Some browsers might unzip it automatically. Clicking on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":258,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[14,13],"class_list":["post-266","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-instructions","tag-keyboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagegeek.com\/lgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagegeek.com\/lgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagegeek.com\/lgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagegeek.com\/lgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagegeek.com\/lgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/languagegeek.com\/lgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/languagegeek.com\/lgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/266\/revisions\/350"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagegeek.com\/lgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagegeek.com\/lgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagegeek.com\/lgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}