Keyboard

Xfce 4 Xkb Plugin displays the current keyboard layout, and refreshes when layout changes. Also the layout can be switched by simply clicking on the plugin. The new version can display the layout as text label and also as an image of the corresponding country’s flag. If the flag image is... Platforms: *nix

Shelljam is a cross-platform console application that transforms keystrokes into MIDI events and hence, lets you use your computer keyboard like any other MIDI input device. Also, the instrument you use will color the music you make. If you like computers, you might just want to use what you... Platforms: *nix

XkbInd stands for X Keyboard Extension Indicator and is a small, simple, but useful indicator of keyboard layout (XKB group) for the X Window System. It indicates the current keyboard layout in the title of top-level windows via a prefix to the original string. XkbInd allows the user to... Platforms: *nix

Gnome Multimedia Keys is an Amarok script that will allow the use of keyboard multimedia keys in Gnome 2.18 and above (eg. ubuntu feisty) to control playback. This includes most multimedia buttons found on many laptops. Support for this was broken due to changes in the handling of keyboard... Platforms: *nix

KeysID project is a highly configurable linux daemon which lets you intercept keyboard key press and make them execute the programs you want. Its thought for laptop and multimedia keyboards, which usually have more keys than standard keyboards, but it works with all the keys. Installation:... Platforms: *nix

gok is the GNOME Onscreen Keyboard. It features Direct Selection, Dwell Selection, Automatic Scanning and Inverse Scanning access methods and includes word completion. GOK includes an alphanumeric keyboard and a keyboard for launching applications. Keyboards are specified in XML enabling... Platforms: *nix

Keyplex is a keyboard multiplexer for X11 terminals. The project will spawn a number of terminals, and when it has focus it relays all keystrokes and mouse button 2 (paste) to them. Installation: The usual ./configure && make && make install. Get Keyplex at SourceForge.net. Fast, secure and... Platforms: *nix

Swinput can fake a mouse and a keyboard by using the Linux Input System. The swinput modules read from a device and fakes hardware event (mouse motion, key presses etc) as commands written on the devices. Swinput presents status etc on the proc filesystem. Swinput project is useful when testing... Platforms: *nix

FireBug is a Firefox extension that allows you to explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including a debugger, an error console, command... Platforms: *nix

GAI Leds displays the keyboard status leds. This is a simple applet that displays the status of the keyboard leds. Useful for us that have a wireless keyboard without the leds. Installation: Simply do: ./configure make make install It requires the GAI library (General Applet... Platforms: *nix

XevdevServer is a program that uses the Linux evdev interface to capture events from specific mouse and keyboard devices. It then translates these events and sends them to an X display using the XTEST extension. It can be helpful in a multi-seat X configuration. Special keys I dont know if... Platforms: *nix

PunkPong project is a Pong-like game written in DHTML (JavaScript, CSS, and HTML) that uses the keyboard or mouse. This cross-platform and cross-browser game was tested under BeOS, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Windows, and others.. Get PunkPong at SourceForge.net. Fast, secure and free... Platforms: *nix

G15daemon takes control of the Logitech G15 keyboard, allowing the use of all keys through the Linux kernel input device driver. It also controls the use of the keyboards LCD display, allows multiple client applications to connect, and gives the user the ability to quickly switch between LCD... Platforms: *nix

KeyFrog is a tool for generating keyboard usage statistics. User obtains many informations about his activity: how intensive was his keyboard usage, how was it distributed in time, etc. This project can be very useful to developers. The project is under fast development, first releases comming... Platforms: *nix

KeyTouch is a program which allows you to easily configure the extra function keys of your keyboard. This means that you can define, for every individual function key, what to do if it is pressed. When you buy a new keyboard a CD-ROM will probably included. This CD-ROM contains software to... Platforms: *nix

mx5000tools is a set of tools to control the LCD that is part of the keyboard that comes with the Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5000 Laser. The Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5000 Laser comes with a keyboard that has a nice LCD. But Logitech did not provide any way to control it from a Free... Platforms: *nix

aoeui project is a lightweight unobtrusive text editor optimized for the Dvorak keyboard layout. These are the sources for the aoeui, a lightweight and unobtrusive text editing program that is optimized for fast editing by users of the Dvorak keyboard layout. It was written in March 2007 by... Platforms: *nix

Rumor is a realtime monophonic (with chords) MIDI keyboard to Lilypond converter. It receives MIDI events, quantizes them according to its metronome on the fly and outputs handwritten-like corresponding Lilypond notation. Tempo, meter, key and other parameters can be set via command-line options.... Platforms: *nix

KBDE is a keyboard emulator. It allows the emulation of keyboard input for keyboardless x86 computers. KBDE includes the following: - linux kernel module - user-space tools - development library Platforms: *nix, C/C++, BSD

Keyboard Shutdown allows you to use one of the Function keys on the top of your Apple US Pro Keyboard to shutdown your Mac. Platforms: Mac