InputSourceSelector

A utility program to manipulate Input Sources on Mac OS X. This program is a thin wrapper for Text Input Sources Services API.

Install

Typing

$ make

on the terminal should generate InputSourceSelector executable in the current directory. Then copy it to somewhere on $PATH.

Usage

$ InputSourceSelector [command]

[command] is described below.

Commands

• list Lists currently installed input sources.
• list-enabled Lists currently enabled input sources.
• current Prints currently selected input source.
• current-layout Prints currently used keyboard layout.
• enable [input source ID] Enables specified input source.
• disable [input source ID] Disables specified input source.
• select [input source ID] Selects specified input source.
• deselect [input source ID] Deselects specified input source.

[input source ID] is one of the input source IDs printed by list,list-enabled,current,current-layout commands, such as com.apple.keylayout.US or com.apple.inputmethod.Kotoeri.Japanese.

Examples

• List all input sources installed on the system:

$ InputSourceSelector list
com.apple.keylayout.Czech-QWERTY (Czech - QWERTY)
com.apple.keylayout.Czech (Czech)
...
com.apple.inputmethod.VietnameseIM.VietnameseVIQR (VIQR)
com.apple.inputmethod.VietnameseIM.VietnameseTelex (Telex)

• List currently enabled input sources on the system:

$ InputSourceSelector list-enabled
com.apple.keylayout.Dvorak (Dvorak)
com.apple.keylayout.US (U.S.)
...
com.apple.KeyboardViewer (Keyboard Viewer)
com.apple.keylayout.UnicodeHexInput (Unicode Hex Input)

• Print the current input source:

$ InputSourceSelector current
com.apple.inputmethod.Kotoeri.Roman (Romaji)

• Print the current keyboard layout:

$ InputSourceSelector current-layout
com.apple.keylayout.Dvorak (Dvorak)