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On Windows 8.1, alt-shift changes the input language/keyboard for all programs. This works fine for applications that I'm running under my own user account. But if I start a program with "runas", e.g.
C:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /savecred /profile /user:ff "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
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alt-shift is ignored in the window, and alt-shift outside the window has no effect on the runas'ed program.
Is there any way to have input language changes apply to runas'ed programs as well?
This problem is not new to Windows 8.1; I saw the same thing in Windows 7.
Don't you change the language of the program within the program? – Rsya Studios – 2014-11-27T21:44:59.023
No, the input language is managed by Windows – Ivan Kozik – 2014-11-27T22:26:42.403
Oh right didn't see input language sorry about that. – Rsya Studios – 2014-11-27T22:42:47.007
IMHO
– JosefZ – 2014-11-29T09:50:44.500alt-shift
is not ignored, input language switching applies with no indication in language panel. Verified even withrunas /user:myself notepad
, wheremyself
is the username logged on currently. On Win-8 also check that per-application input language settings (not sure if it is per-box or per-user). And has yourff
user more languages installed anywise?I'm not seeing the behavior you describe (with runas /user:anotheruser), at least not with Google's Japanese IME on Windows 8.1. I've tried toggling that per-window setting as well. It's probably working for you because you're running it as the same user as the current session. (Sorry if it was unclear that I was running it as another user.) – Ivan Kozik – 2014-11-30T20:56:17.863
The
ff
user does have the input language and IME set up as well, and I can even log in asff
and change the language, but it has no effect on the Firefox window running on my primary desktop. – Ivan Kozik – 2014-11-30T20:58:34.003Of course I have tried
runas /user:anotheruser
first, goes as described above. That experiment withrunas /user:myself
done to assure the language indicator stays dead. But I'm switching CZ-EN-SK keyboards only; maybe that Google's Japanese IME brings some new quality - so what about support.google.com? And to unblame Firefox, what behaviour if runasing another browser? – JosefZ – 2014-12-02T18:04:14.473You are indeed correct! Google Japanese Input is broken with this setup, while other languages work fine. – Ivan Kozik – 2015-01-08T17:41:52.453