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Re: #7291.3 Disappearing Keyboard Icon in OS X 9!)
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--- Forwarded Message from Derek Roff <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:57:33 -0600
>From: Derek Roff <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #7291 Disappearing Keyboard Icon in OS X
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I have posed this question, why the menu bar keyboard icon sometimes 
disappears, to the Apple Systems Engineer who serves our campus, and 
to AppleCare.  They have given me several suggestions, none of which 
has provided a permanent solution.  I, too, would love to know what 
causes this problem, which has affected all the versions of OS X that 
we have used:  10.2.3-10.2.6.

I have found that using Disk Utility>First Aid>Repair Permissions 
will increase the time period between incidents.  It may be that 
repairing permissions on a regular basis would prevent the 
disappearing keyboard icon problem, but I have done things in the 
other order- I repair the permissions when the disappearing icon 
alerts me of the need.

derek

> --- Forwarded Message from Laura Atkinson <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:14:53 -0400
>> From: Laura Atkinson <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: Mac Users Group <[log in to unmask]>,
>> "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>,
>> [log in to unmask] Subject: Disappearing Keyboard Icon in OS X
>
> In OS 10.2.6, I have seen on several machines that the keyboard
> icon (the  American flag up top) sporadically disappears and is
> replaced by the  Character Palette icon. To fix it, I just go into
> Customize Menu and turn  one of the desired keyboards off and back
> on again. It's easy enough then  to fix, but I'm wondering why it
> happens. Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Laura Atkinson
> Technical Coordinator for Foreign Language Computing
> Duke University
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Derek Roff
Language Learning Center, MSC03-2100
Ortega Hall Rm 129, 1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
505/277-7368, fax 505/277-3885
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