Posted: September 2nd, 2011 | Author: Akmal
In Mac OSX lion holding a keyboard key reveals a contextual menu allowing you to choose different variations of the character. This happens to be a major annoyance for me since I don’t really use that feature. So here is how you can disable it using a terminal command if you decide to revert back the typical performance of repeating characters while you’re holding the key.
Just run the Terminal.app and enter the following command.
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
This will disable Lion’s contextual pop up menu when you long hold a key for repeating characters.
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