Re: [ukelele-users] Custom keyboard layout not showing up when trying to add it to input sources

[Sorin Paliga]

The name of the keyboard layout, as shown in the Bar, is NOT the name of the file, that one may be any you wish, e.g. bla-bla, you must set it within the app, as in attachment.

On 26 Feb 2015, at 22:29, Carl Åkerman Rydbeck <carl.aker...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello

I've been trying desperately to get this to work with some different solutions found online (most of these seemed pretty old and irrelevant...) but no matter what I try, the name of the created keyboard layout just won't show up in the list in system preferences ---> keyboard ---> input sources ---> +. Does anyone have a working solution? I have followed steps that have seemed to work for others  but still, nothing.
10.9.5 if that makes any difference.

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[Geke]

I hope Sorin’s answer helped? Amazingly, there is nothing about naming a keyboard layout in the tutorial or even the manual coming with Ukelele!

The only short but adequate entry is in the built-in Help:
Inside Ukelele, choose from the Help menu the option "Ukelele Help" and navigate to Editing a keyboard layout / Housekeeping / Keyboard name and ID.

I’m guessing that you have started a new layout on the basis of an existing one. Then, if you don’t rename the layout, it may appear in the list instead of the old one you had used as starting point, or maybe only that old one is shown. I don’t know how OS X deals with such name conflicts, best to avoid them...

[Sorin Paliga]

I think may users assume that the name of the keylayout is the file name! Wrong, of course. 

I also like those users who ask something, then forget to let me/us know where the answer fits their issue.

[Geke]

Maybe he is busy with other things.
But yes, the problem/solution could lie somewhere else, like he didn’t log out and back in, or some more serious thing, who knows.
So let’s wait a bit and see what Carl comes back with.