Keys and Shortcuts

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

Keys and Shortcuts

From Anywhere in the Desktop

Ctrl+Alt+K    Show or hide the on-screen keyboard

That is the stock binding for the action "On-screen keyboard", technical id session.osk. It belongs to the window manager, not to cyosk, and you can move it to any chord you like in the Menu & Shortcuts editor. See the MenuShortcuts book, reachable from Help Books in the Contents pane .

On the Keyboard Itself

Button 1 on a key       Type that key
Button 1 on Shift       Latch the modifier for the next key
Button 3 on the face    Open the face menu
Button 1 on Sml         Full board or compact board
Drag the empty space    Move the board
Drag a corner           Resize the board
Wheel over the words    Scroll the suggestion chips

The FindIt Gesture

Wheel up, down, up, down    Show it, send it to its spot

One notch each way. Ordinary scrolling is untouched; only that sequence counts. See Bringing Up the Keyboard.

The Power Keys

<  >        Previous desk, next desk
max  min    Maximize, minimize the target window
Tile        Next tiling mode

These are window-manager requests rather than keystrokes, and they are off until you turn them on. See The Power Keys.

Keys That Do Nothing Here

The on-screen keyboard refuses the keyboard focus, so no key you press on your physical keyboard is aimed at it. In particular, "q" and Escape do not close it. Use the show key, or Quit on The Face Menu.