One of my favorite new Mavs features is the pop-up characters panel. Its operation is detailed here. It is summoned via control+command+space and looks like this:
At some point, however, the key combination started summoning the full Character Viewer instead:
The latter is a bit more awkward to use than the panel was. How did I get set this way and how I can get back to using the pop-up panel?
The button in the upper-right corner of Character Viewer was the culprit. If I summon Character Viewer and click it, Character Viewer shrinks:
From then on, further presses of control+command+space summon the pop-up panel instead.
As to how I got to the full Character Viewer, opening Character Viewer from the menu bar Input menu (which can be turned on in System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources):
then clicking the button in the upper-right corner of Character Viewer twice—once to shrink the window, once to restore it—appears to set a preference that I'd like the key combination to pop up the full Character Viewer instead of the pop-up.
