FLORENCE(1)

📦 version 0.6.3, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ FLORENCE ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair, because this is florence — section 1 of the manual, the virtual keyboard that's about to change your whole life 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

florence — the extensible, scalable virtual keyboard for GNOME. yes, she's both extensible AND scalable, she contains multitudes 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

florence [OPTIONS]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you run her, you give her some options, she slays ✨

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so. Florence is an extensible and scalable virtual keyboard for GNOME. You need her if you can't use a real hardware keyboard — like, for example because of injury, because of handicap, because your keyboard is literally broken 😭, or because you're on a tablet PC. But — and this is the important part, no cap — you must be able to use a pointing device. A mouse, a trackball, a touchscreen, or opengazer. Any of those. 🖱️

And if you can't use a pointing device either? Then there's gok, which can be used with just simple switches. Different tool, different vibe, still valid 🫶

Florence stays out of your way when you don't need her — she appears on the screen only when you need her. That's main character energy: shows up when it matters, ghosts when it doesn't. 🧚

There's a timer-based auto-click input method available, and it's there to help disabled people who have difficulties clicking. And then there's the ramble mode, which is another efficient input method that can help. Both of these are just... really good, okay? 🔥

Florence is primarily intended to be used with the GNOME desktop, although — plot twist — she can be used on any desktop environment if you use the --no-gnome option. inclusive queen 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, --help — prints the help message and then exits. she tells you what's up and dips 🎀
  • -V, --version — prints the Florence version and exits. so you know exactly which era of Florence you're dealing with ⭐
  • -c, --config — opens the configuration dialog. customize her, she loves it 💖
  • -d, --debug — launches Florence in verbose mode. she will tell you EVERYTHING that's happening. oversharing as a feature 🙈
  • -n, --no-gnome — use this if you're not on the GNOME desktop environment. Heads up: this will disable some GNOME specific features. sacrifices must be made 😭
  • -f, --focus[=WINDOW] — with this option, any florence input will go to the selected window. The WINDOW argument is the name of the window — y'know, the one that most window managers put in the title bar. If you don't provide the window argument, florence will select the last focused window. This one's useful for window managers that don't support the "not focusable" hint and focus the keyboard window instead of the output one. It can also be useful if you want to input text to a window that is not focused. And — important — this option must be used for the keyboard to work in GDM. do not skip this one bestie, fr fr 💀
  • *-u *FILE, --use-config=*FILE*** — use the configuration file provided instead of gconf. The configuration file is a key-value pair file with sections. An example of a configuration file is provided at /usr/share/doc/florence/examples/florence.conf`. go peek at it, it's giving tutorial ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • Florence documentation in the GNOME help system. yes, there's a whole help system, go read it 📖
  • Florence website: http://florence.sourceforge.net/ — the mothership 🛸

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

François Agrech <f.agrech@gmail.com> — the icon who built her 👑

okay that's the whole page, bestie. now go type something cute with a mouse, you've got this 🫶

signing off from Florence, dated 09/26/2011, page FLORENCE(1) — love u, mean it, mwah 💋

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