"Wrong keyboard", or how to set a familiar PC layout on a Mac. Working with keyboard layouts in OS X Where is the letter e on the Mac hackintosh

Mac computers are very popular because of their high quality and reliability. However, there are some features that are difficult for new users to get used to. Today we will tell how to put the letter E on a Mac keyboard.

What is the problem?

The problem is that Mac computers have a slightly different key arrangement than regular PC devices. This is due to a special layout that is only available on the Mac. Overall, the change is not that strong. For example, all letters work the same, but the difference lies in the location of the commas, as well as the letter ё. And today you will learn what to do with this.

Where is this letter located?

It is worth understanding that on the keyboard of Apple computers, the ё key does not disappear, it is simply moved to another place, which causes some inconvenience. It is located above the Enter button, in the form of a slash. In the Russian layout, this button calls not a slash, but the letter we need.

This is not always convenient, and it will be quite difficult for new users to get used to such innovations, therefore today we will tell you how to change these parameters and customize them for themselves.

How do I customize the layout?

In order to return the normal keyboard layout, the user will need to go to the system settings. In them you need to go to the item "language and regions". It is at this point that you can customize the keyboard.

You will see a list of available languages \u200b\u200bthat you can add. The topmost language is the system language, while the ones below are used for text input. In order to return the PC layout, you need to change the Russian language from the list to another.

The fact is that Mac computers have 2 versions of the Russian layout. The first is the regular version, which is the default for most users. It is on it that there are those keyboard changes that you cannot get used to.

In order to return the usual keyboard, you need to delete the existing Russian language, and select "Russian PC" in the list of languages. This is a special Russian layout that brings back the familiar keyboard to everyone.

These parameters change not only the letter ё, but also some others. mac hotkeys... For example, they change the way commas are written. Initially you need to press option key + CTRL + comma, or period. This is inconvenient since you have to press 3 buttons at the same time. The regular layout brings everything back to its usual place.

The keyboard can also be customized more flexibly. There are many programs that allow you to assign different meanings to buttons. Thus, you can assign any value to any key. This allows you to customize the dialing tool as comfortably as possible. However, you should be careful with such settings, since you can also change hotkeys in programs. If you change them, then you can later get confused in your changes. In general, hotkeys on a computer help to work with the system much faster, therefore every experienced user must remember them.

Newbie migrants from windows must be at a loss why Macs have such an awkward keyboard layout. The comma is on the number 6, the point is on the number 7, and the letter E is not in the right place. Let's make the layout familiar to PC.

By default, OS X offers us "its" Russian layout and English. I hope you know how to switch keyboard layouts on Mac OS X - this is the keyboard shortcut Command + Space.

But not everyone knows that Macs have the option to choose a PC layout. True, this option will still cause some inconvenience, since the comma and period are in place, but there is no letter E.

By the way, is this option located here? System settings? Language and text? Sources of input and tick Russian - PC.

In general, let's combine all the required keyboard key layouts on one layout.

For this we need a utility called Ukelele, you can download it here.

Download, install, switch the layout to "Russian - PC" and run.

Right after starting the program, open the Ukelele menu? File? New from current input source

Thus, we will open the current PC layout and will refine it.

The period and comma, in principle, are conveniently located, but the letter "E" must be "put in place."

We choose where we want it to be located. For example, in its "Poppy" place, where the slash \\ is located.

Double-click on \\ and enter the letter e (copy and paste it from here). Done for lower case.

Now for the upper case, hold down Shift and again double-click on \\ and insert the letter "Ё" in upper case.

We've dealt with the letter "Ё", now let's move the "rewritten" slash \\ to another place.

Hold Option and click on the button where the letter Y is now located. Enter \\.

Then we will do the same for the backslash /, holding down the Option button and clicking on the key with a period (physically it is "?" Or "/").

That is, the slash \\ - will be available by pressing Option + Ё, and the backslash / by pressing Option + "?".

Now it remains to change the keyboard name and save it. To change the keyboard name, go to the Ukelele menu? Keyboard? Set Keyboard Name and enter, for example, "Russian Mac PC".

Now press Command + Shift + S and save it under any name, anywhere.

And finally, it remains to move it to the system folder so that Apple Mac OS X "sees" it. Going Macintosh HD? Users? Username? Libraries? Input Methods and paste the keyboard file into this folder.

That's all, if you are not satisfied with the layout icon, then you can easily change it. B. dmg program has a folder with layout icons:

To change, go to the Ukelele menu? Keyboard? Attach icon file and save. The file with the icon will lie next to the layout file. Remember to put them in your Macintosh HD? Users? Username? Libraries? Input Methods.

At first, the usual PageUp, PageDown, Home, End keys were lacking, and in the early days it was inconvenient, but then, having comprehended the trackpad dao and tricky keyboards, you get used to it.

The huge trackpad is really easy to navigate. As usual, one finger moves the cursor. In further, the magic of gestures turns on. Smooth scrolling of the page in all 4 directions is carried out with two fingers - it is so convenient that I no longer agree to struggle with a small trackpad and grabbing narrow scroll bars on a PC. Tapping with 2 fingers into the trackpad brings up a context menu similar to the one we are used to seeing in Windows when we right-click. There are gestures with three and four fingers, I will not consider them here. Custom functions can be assigned to the corners of the screen - I tried it and turned it off after a couple of days, as they turned on from careless movements of the mouse and rather interfered with me.

Here are some commonly used keyboard shortcuts:

⌘ + Space - switch Russian-English (default)

⌘ + Q - close the application

⌘ + W - close the active window (it is convenient to close bookmarks in the browser without rushing into a cross)

Ctrl + Space - activate the Spotlight search bar (global search for files and their contents)

⌘ + F - Search (in those applications where it is supported)

⌘ + ▴ (up arrow) - Home

⌘ + ▾ (down arrow) - End

Fn + ▴ - PageUp

Fn + ▾- PageDown

You will find a comma and a period in the Russian layout under the numbers 6 and 7 while holding Shift.

The letter "ё" - the "\\" key (above enter)

shift + 2 - "
shift + 5 -:
shift + 6 -,
shift + 7 -.
shift + 8 -;

alt + command + eject - sleep mode;
control + shift + eject - turn off the display (turn off the screen)

Command + Shift + 3

This OS X keyboard shortcut to create full screen screenshot and save it in PNG format on your desktop. The name of the image is formed by the date and time of the screenshot.

Command + Shift + 4

The second combination allows you to make screenshot of the highlighted part of the screen... For this, a pointer appears in the form of a crosshair with coordinates. After you have selected the area and released the mouse, the finished image is saved on the desktop.

Command + Shift + 4 + Space

If you do not select the screen, but press the spacebar, the sight will change to a camera icon and you will go to window photography mode... Now it is enough to hover over any window and take a screenshot.

If you hold Control while taking a screenshot in OS X, the image will not appear on the desktop, but will go to the clipboard. This is convenient for working with temporary pictures that need post-processing.

And there are dozens of such combinations. And if we talk about various applications, then there are many more.

It is useful to enable the virtual keyboard from the language menu and look at it by pressing the alt.

For writing texts in spanish, germanand so on French no need to set a special layout.
For example, Alt-e a \u003d á, Alt e e \u003d é, Alt-n n \u003d ñ, Alt-u o \u003d ö. (You must hold down alt and press "e", then release both keys and press the letter you want to put a sign on). And so on. There are all kinds of diacritics on the American keyboard.

á -\u003e Opt + E, A

é -\u003e Opt + E, E

New Mac owners tend to fall into a stupor as soon as they start to work with his keyboard. Finding the punctuation marks you need in the Russian layout is not easy if you have worked with ordinary PCs all your life. The topic is especially relevant for those who bought a MacBook abroad and cannot use the Cyrillic symbols on the keys.

The problem can be solved simply. Click on the icon of the language used and select the item "Open keyboard settings ..." in the drop-down menu:

A window with suggested input sources will appear. Click on the "+" button at the bottom left, and a long list of available keyboard layouts opens in front of us. We select the section "Russian" and from the proposed options we stop at "Russian - PC"... Click "Add":

Now we have two Russian layouts and one English. We don't need the standard Russian layout, so we click on it, press "-" and as a result we get one English layout and one Russian:

As a result, we get the usual layout. But in some cases it happens that after all that has been done, one is missing - the letter " e": She is not in her usual place. If this is the case for you, see further instructions. The problem is solved by using a "custom" layout. You can either download it or make it yourself.

Step 1. Create a layout

First, let's return for a while to the list of available layouts "Russian". Then download the free Ukelele app.

Along with the application, there are many ready-made layouts in the downloaded disk image. Copying files Russian.keylayout and Russian.icns of Ukelele_2.2.8 / System Keyboards / Cyrillic into a convenient folder - for example, into a previously created ~ / Documents / Keyboard /.

Files can be renamed, but they must be the same so that only their extensions differ. I named them Russian_keys.

We open Russian_keys.keylayout with Ukelele. Before us is an almost perfect layout:

"Almost", because the letter "ё" is still out of place. Double click on the key of the layout template where we want to see "e", and enter it:

Note that you need to separately enter the capital letter "E" for the case of holding down the Shift key. To do this, press and hold it on the physical keyboard - and, as before, edit the template key. After that we choose File -\u003e Save.

Step 2. Connect the layout

Copy both created or downloaded files - layout and icon - into a folder / Library / Keyboard Layouts /.

Then we return to the input source selection menu, remove all Russian layouts from there and add a new one: select the "Other" section, where we find our long-awaited "Russian" layout. That's it, the usual layout is at our disposal!

Open the System Preferences app. To do this, open the Apple menu (the icon is located at the top of the screen and looks like an apple), or open the Applications folder, or open the Dock.

Find the "Enter" option. To do this, in the upper right corner of the "System Preferences" window in the search bar, enter "input" (or input). One or more options will be highlighted. Select one of the following options (if highlighted):

Click on the Input Source tab. With the appropriate submenu open, go to the Input Source tab. Depending on the OS X version, a list of countries (with flags) and / or an image of your keyboard will be displayed.

Check the box next to Show Input Menu in Menu Bar. This option is located at the bottom of the window. By checking this option, you will see a new flag or black and white keyboard icon appear on the right side of the menu bar (at the top of the screen).

Displays the symbol browser. On the menu bar (top), click the new icon and select Show Symbol Browser. A window with a large collection of symbols will open (similar to the emoji window mentioned in the previous section). Use this window as follows:

• Click on the category name in the left pane.
• Scroll through the middle panel to find the symbol you want. To open the variations of the selected symbol, click on it and scroll the right panel.
• Double-click on a symbol to insert it into the text box. Alternatively, you can drag the symbol into the text box, or right-click the symbol, click Copy Symbol Information, and paste it into the text box. In some older versions of OS X, use the Insert button instead of this button.