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6 florence - extensible and scalable virtual keyboard for GNOME
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9 florence [OPTIONS]
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12 Florence is an extensible scalable virtual keyboard for GNOME. You need
13 it if you can’t use a real hardware keyboard, for example because of
14 injury, handicap, your keyboard is broken or because you use a tablet
15 PC, but you must be able to use a pointing device (as a mouse, a
16 trackball, a touchscreen or opengazer); If you can’t use a pointing
17 device, there is gok, which can be used with just simple switches.
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19 Florence stays out of your way when you don’t need it: it appears on
20 the screen only when you need it. A timer-based auto-click input method
21 is available to help disabled people having difficulties to click. The
22 ramble mode is another efficient input method that can help.
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24 Florence is primarily intended to be used with the GNOME desktop,
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30 Print help message and exit.
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33 Print Florence version and exit.
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39 Launch Florence in verbose mode.
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42 Use this option if you are not using the GNOME desktop environment.
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46 With this option, any florence input will go to the selected
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50 option is useful for window managers that don’t support the "not
51 focusable" hint and focus the keyboard window instead of the output
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57 Use the configuration file provided instead of gconf. The
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63 Florence documentation in the GNOME help system.
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65 Florence website: http://florence.sourceforge.net/
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