How do I re-enable the Press and Hold character picker on OS X Lion? I disabled the character picker by reading this other question, but I want to remove that change and restore the picker.

When I type -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true into Terminal, it does not work.

How can I re-enable the Press &amp; Hold character picker after disabling it?
The command to enable the Press &amp; Hold character picker is as follows:

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true


Note the addition of defaults write which was missing from your command.



If it does not work in certain apps after performing this, restart/reload those apps (e.g. killall -HUP Finder). Alternatively, log out of your user or just reboot your computer.