The Face Menu

Documentation / Contents - On-Screen Keyboard

• Overview of the On-Screen Keyboard
  • The Four Boards
  • One Keyboard Per Screen
• Bringing Up the Keyboard
  • The Show Key
  • The FindIt Gesture
  • The Taskbar Button and the Systray Icon
  • Putting It Away
• Typing With the Keyboard
  • Shift and Other Modifiers
  • Why Your Own Keyboard Still Works
  • Moving and Resizing the Board
• The Face Menu
• The Indicator Strip
• The Power Keys
• Word and Phrase Suggestions
• Layout, Size, and Placement
  • Keyboard Layout
  • Size
  • Where It Appears
• Setting Preferences
  • The Layout Page
  • The Appearance Page
  • The Behavior Page
  • The Session Page
  • The Typing Page
  • Defaults and Close
• Making the Keyboard Easier to Use
  • High-Contrast Colors
  • Hover to Press
  • A Bigger Board
• Keys and Shortcuts
• Where the Settings Live
• Copyright Information

The Face Menu

Click the third mouse button anywhere on the keyboard's face and a short menu appears. It has five entries.

Preferences   Open the preferences panel
Show Frame    Window frame and title bar on or off
Help          Open this book
About CyOsk   Version and build information
Quit          Exit the on-screen keyboard

Preferences

Opens cyosk-prefs, the panel described in Setting Preferences. Only one copy of the panel runs; choosing Preferences a second time raises the one already open rather than starting another.

Show Frame

A check item. When it is checked the keyboard wears an ordinary window frame with a title bar, so the window manager can move, resize and close it like any other window. Unchecked, the board is frameless and you move it by dragging the empty space between keys.

The row carries its own check box, drawn as a pair of square brackets with an x between them when the frame is on. It reflects the live state, so you can read the current setting without changing it. The change takes effect at once and is remembered; it is the same setting as "Show window border and title" on the Appearance page of Setting Preferences.

Help

Opens the help viewer on this book, at the overview.

About CyOsk

A small window with the program version and build identifier. Quote both if you report a problem.

Quit

Exits the program. This is a real exit, not a hide: the next show key press starts a fresh keyboard rather than revealing the one you quit. To put the keyboard away and keep it running, use the show key instead. See Bringing Up the Keyboard.