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From: David Empson on 10 Apr 2010 20:43
Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote:

> Whenever the system presents a dialog for me to enter my password (e.g.
> when installing an application or checking a password in Keychain access),
> the keyboard viewer also opens. It didn't used to do that before.
>
> I checked the Keyboard and Universal Access preferences, and wasn't able to
> find anything that would cause this behavior.
>
> Anyone have any constructive suggestions on how to turn this off?

I worked it out, and it appears to be a user interface bug.

While a password prompt is on screen, you can go to the input menu and
activate the keyboard view via Show Keyboard Viewer.

If you try to close it via the red button, it will come back again next
time a password prompt appears.

The trick is to go to the input menu and choose "Show Keyboard Viewer"
(sic) again. This actually hides it, and is persistent.

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David Empson
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: Jolly Roger on 10 Apr 2010 21:58
In article <1jgsayg.14cwxb5hdld6xN%dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz>,
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

> Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote:
>
> > Whenever the system presents a dialog for me to enter my password (e.g.
> > when installing an application or checking a password in Keychain access),
> > the keyboard viewer also opens. It didn't used to do that before.
> >
> > I checked the Keyboard and Universal Access preferences, and wasn't able to
> > find anything that would cause this behavior.
> >
> > Anyone have any constructive suggestions on how to turn this off?
>
> I worked it out, and it appears to be a user interface bug.
>
> While a password prompt is on screen, you can go to the input menu and
> activate the keyboard view via Show Keyboard Viewer.
>
> If you try to close it via the red button, it will come back again next
> time a password prompt appears.
>
> The trick is to go to the input menu and choose "Show Keyboard Viewer"
> (sic) again. This actually hides it, and is persistent.

This one drove me nuts for a time. I ended up doing what you said out of
aggravation!

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From: Fred Moore on 12 Apr 2010 10:55
In article <1jgsayg.14cwxb5hdld6xN%dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz>,
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

> Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote:
>
> > Whenever the system presents a dialog for me to enter my password (e.g.
> > when installing an application or checking a password in Keychain access),
> > the keyboard viewer also opens. It didn't used to do that before.
> >
> > I checked the Keyboard and Universal Access preferences, and wasn't able to
> > find anything that would cause this behavior.
> >
> > Anyone have any constructive suggestions on how to turn this off?
>
> I worked it out, and it appears to be a user interface bug.
>
> While a password prompt is on screen, you can go to the input menu and
> activate the keyboard view via Show Keyboard Viewer.
>
> If you try to close it via the red button, it will come back again next
> time a password prompt appears.
>
> The trick is to go to the input menu and choose "Show Keyboard Viewer"
> (sic) again. This actually hides it, and is persistent.

I wonder if this is Apple's way of finally working around the ASCII
password restriction which was a PITA for people in other languages who
wanted/needed to use optioned characters in their account password. That
problem has been going on since the beginning of OS X.
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