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Keyboard preferences have little effect

Hi there, I am writing a bash script to switch between my native and external keyboard. It happens a lot that I need to take my laptop somewhere and I forget to change the keyboards manually. I have a native French keyboard (AZERTY) and an external US International keyboard (QWERTY). You see, the French native was a mistake...

I stumbled upon your Keyboard Preferences in

dotfiles/bin/macos-system-defaults.sh, lines 100 - 112

Let's say I want to switch to the native keyboard, which is a French-numerical layout with ID 1111. Therefore I run:

defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox AppleCurrentKeyboardLayoutInputSourceID "com.apple.keylayout.French-numerical"
defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox AppleDefaultAsciiInputSource -dict InputSourceKind "Keyboard Layout" "KeyboardLayout ID" -int 1111 "KeyboardLayout Name" French-numerical

# Delete the default layouts
defaults delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox AppleEnabledInputSources

# Enable French-numerical layout
defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox AppleEnabledInputSources -array '{ InputSourceKind = "Keyboard Layout"; "KeyboardLayout ID" = 1111; "KeyboardLayout Name" = French-numerical; }'
defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox AppleInputSourceHistory -array '{ InputSourceKind = "Keyboard Layout"; "KeyboardLayout ID" = 1111; "KeyboardLayout Name" = French-numerical; }'
defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox AppleSelectedInputSources -array '{ InputSourceKind = "Keyboard Layout"; "KeyboardLayout ID" = 1111; "KeyboardLayout Name" = French-numerical; }'

I can check this simply with

defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox
{
    AppleCurrentKeyboardLayoutInputSourceID = "com.apple.keylayout.French-numerical";
    AppleDefaultAsciiInputSource =     {
        InputSourceKind = "Keyboard Layout";
        "KeyboardLayout ID" = 1111;
        "KeyboardLayout Name" = "French-numerical";
    };
    AppleDictationAutoEnable = 1;
    AppleEnabledInputSources =     (
                {
            InputSourceKind = "Keyboard Layout";
            "KeyboardLayout ID" = 1111;
            "KeyboardLayout Name" = "French-numerical";
        }
    );
    AppleGlobalTextInputProperties =     {
        TextInputGlobalPropertyPerContextInput = 0;
    };
    AppleInputSourceHistory =     (
                {
            InputSourceKind = "Keyboard Layout";
            "KeyboardLayout ID" = 1111;
            "KeyboardLayout Name" = "French-numerical";
        }
    );
    AppleSelectedInputSources =     (
                {
            InputSourceKind = "Keyboard Layout";
            "KeyboardLayout ID" = 1111;
            "KeyboardLayout Name" = "French-numerical";
        }
    );
}

However, when I am pressing keys, the keyboard is still on QWERTY, the US layout. And I do get the same error (no layout switch) when I just use your code and try to set the keyboard layout to Finnish. Any ideas?

My laptop is a MacBook Pro (2015) running macOS Mojave 10.14.6

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