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How can I stop the Character Viewer from appearing every time OS X asks me for a password?

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Mar 15, 202615378 views
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This is new behaviour in OS X 10.6: when I get keychain dialog boxes asking me for my password or to approve use of my keychain, the Character Viewer appears over top. I don't want to disable the Character Viewer completely because I use it; I just don't want it popping up at this totally unrelated…

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Fix for: How can I stop the Character Viewer from appearing every time OS X asks me for a password?

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With the Character Viewer open, on the lower left click the settings and select "Minimize Viewer on Application Switch". Although it is odd that you are getting this behaviour. Did you change your language settings? UPDATE: I was able to replicate t…

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