Florence

Extensible scalable virtual keyboard for X11.

This is the FrauBSD continuation of Florence by François Agrech, whose SourceForge tree stalled at 0.6.3 (2014). The canonical tree is now FrauBSD/florence.

Florence is for you if you cannot use a hardware keyboard — because of injury, handicap, a broken keyboard, or a tablet / convertible touchscreen — but can use a pointing device (mouse, trackball, stylus, or touchscreen). It stays out of your way when you don't need it, offers a timer-based auto-click input method, and a gesture-based ramble mode.

Continuation release; see NEWS for the full changelog.

• Fix magnifier +/− crash (clamp scale; drop bigger/smaller from default layouts); Resize key with clamped live scale
• iPad-style sticky modifiers, Caps/Num lock sync from XKB, hold-to-repeat
• Move key: WM drag for mouse, seat-grab for touch
• Session placement above the taskbar; RandR portrait fit / landscape restore
• Framework-style Fn row (⅔-height F-keys, Esc placement, KEY_FN)
• Fn layer with XF86 media / brightness / display / gear symbol artwork
• Unified greeter binary (--greeter / argv0) for display manager login screens; prefs dialog fixes (--export-dynamic)

Autotools:

./configure --without-docs
gmake
gmake install

Dependencies: GTK+ 3, cairo, librsvg2, libxml2, gettext/intltool, and optionally libnotify, libXtst, GStreamer.

On FreeBSD, use the port x11/florence, which carries a FREEBSD_ORB option rendering the Super key with a FreeBSD orb glyph.

florence            # start the keyboard
florence -c         # open the configuration window
florence -G -f      # display manager greeter mode
florence hide       # control a running instance: show / hide / move x,y

See florence(1) for the full manual.

GPLv2 or later — see COPYING. Documentation is GFDL — see COPYING-DOCS.