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On Screen Keyboards
Many on screen virtual keyboards have been created for environments with no keyboards such as wearable computers or palm devices. They are also very useful for accessibility enhancement when used with a mouse or no-hand tools such as a head-mouse or an eye-tracker. They are needed if your keyboard has a failure. Some of the tools are described in this section.
ONBOARD OnScreen Keyboard
Onboard is an on-screen keyboard for Gnome (but it works OK in KDE/Plasma) that can be useful for tablet PC users, as well as for mobility impaired people.
GNOME On-Screen Keyboard
GNOME's On-Screen Keyboard or gok provides an on screen tool for selecting windows as well as composing input. GOK can be enabled as the default mobility application by selecting Startmenu -> Tool -> Assesibility then clicking the GOK button and selecting the preferred mobility application. Additional information can be located at [1] Live Gnome.
Indic Onscreen Keyboard
iok is Indic Onscreen Keyboard. It provides virtual keyboard functionality. It currently works with Inscript and xkb keymaps for Indian languages. The following keymaps are currently available: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Punjabi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu. iok can even try to parse and display non-inscript keymaps. Visit [2] for more information on iok.
Installing iok
To install iok as example in fedora, you can either select System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software on the GNOME panel, and then type iok in the screen that pops up; or alternatively type su -c "yum install iok" in a terminal window.
Florence
Florence is an extensible, scalable, virtual keyboard, whose sole requirement is a pointing device.
Once enabled, Florence displays an icon in the notification area on the GNOME Panel. Florence can be sent to the background when it is not needed, making it a practical solution for screens of all sizes. To toggle whether Florence is displayed or hidden, just click the icon. Alternatively, Florence can be set to autohide until an editable area is selected. Florence can also be configured easily to be transparent, through the Preferences dialogue. To edit all available Preferences, right-click on the icon on the GNOME Panel, and choose Preferences from the dropdown list.
Additional information on Florence Virtual Keyboard can be found at the project's homepage, [3]. Once Florence is installed, to view full documentation right-click on the icon on the GNOME Panel, and choose Help from the dropdown menu.
Installing Florence
Florence is as example available in the fedora package repositories; to install either select System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software on the GNOME Desktop and then type florence in the window that pops up, or type su -c "yum install florence" in a terminal window.
Caribou
Gnome's Caribou is an on-screen keyboard that is still in development. An alternative to the Gnome On-Screen Keyboard, Caribou is still a few months away from being available as a stable release. Additional information can be located at [4]
Dasher
Dasher is an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures. Dasher is not really a keyboard but instead uses a zooming interface and a predictive language model with word completion. Dasher makes data entry easy by people utilizing a joystick, touchscreen, trackball, or mouse for one-handed operations. It can also be utilized by people using no-hand tools such as a head-mouse or an eye-tracker. Additional information on Dasher can be found at [5]
Installing Dasher
In Mageia, Dasher can be easily installed by either selecting Startmenu -> Application -> Add/Remove Software and then type in dasher in the package searchline, or in the terminal window type su urmpi dasher
