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type="topic"
id="overview">
<info>
<desc>Learn about <app>Onboard</app> keys.</desc>
<link type="guide" xref="index"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>marmuta</name>
<email>marmvta@gmail.com</email>
<years>2016</years>
</credit>
<license href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">
<p>This work is licensed under the
<link href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GNU General Public License version 3 or any later version</link>.</p>
</license>
</info>
<title>Quick overview</title>
<p>These are the default behaviours of <app>Onboard's</app> keys. Note, that many of them can be modified in Preferences.</p>
<section id="character_keys">
<title>Character keys</title>
<p>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/character-keys.png"/>
</p>
<list>
<item><p>Press to insert the shown character</p></item>
<item><p>Long-press to open a selection of related characters.</p></item>
<item><p>Right click to insert the character in upper case.</p></item>
</list>
<p>
Long-press popups are not only available for many letters, but also for digits,
currency symbols and others.
</p>
</section>
<section id="modifier_keys">
<title>Modifier keys</title>
<p>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/shift-key.png"/>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/ctrl-key.png"/>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/alt-key.png"/>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/altgr-key.png"/>
</p>
<p>Keys <key>SHIFT</key>, <key>CTRL</key>, <key>ALT</key>, <key>Alt-Gr</key>:</p>
<list>
<item><p>Press once to activate for the next typed character only</p></item>
<item><p>Press a second time to keep it active</p></item>
<item><p>Press a third time to deactivate</p></item>
<item><p>Press and hold: on a multi-touch enabled device these keys
can be held down with one finger while typing characters with another.</p></item>
</list>
<p>Keys <key>CAPS</key>, <key>NumLock</key>:</p>
<list>
<item><p>Press to toggle.</p></item>
</list>
<p>Note: <key>NumLock</key> will be remembered across restarts of Onboard.</p>
</section>
<section id="layer_buttons">
<title>Layer Buttons</title>
<p>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/layer2-button.png"/>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/layer3-button.png"/>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/layer2-Small-button.png"/>
</p>
<p>Use Layer Buttons to switch to additional, less frequently used keys.</p>
<list>
<item><p>Press once to activate for the next typed character only</p></item>
<item><p>Press a second time to keep it active for longer</p></item>
<item><p>Press a third time or press any other layer button to deactivate</p></item>
</list>
</section>
<section id="word_suggestions">
<title>Word Suggestions</title>
<p> Word Suggestions can be enabled on preferences page "Typing Assistance".</p>
<p> Spelling suggestions like <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/correction-button.png"/>
are displayed whenever Onboard detects a potentially
misspelled word at or before the caret.</p>
<list>
<item><p>Press the suggestion to replace the misspelled word</p></item>
<item><p>Press the arrow to show more spelling suggestions</p></item>
</list>
<p> Word completions and predictions:</p>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/prediction-buttons.png"/>
<p> </p>
<list>
<item><p>Press any of suggestions to insert the word at the caret</p></item>
<item><p>Long-press any to show a popup menu for that suggestions</p></item>
</list>
<p>The popup menu currently allows to remove erroneous suggestions.</p>
</section>
<section id="click_type_buttons">
<title>Click Type Buttons</title>
<p>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/middle-click-button.png"/>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/right-click-button.png"/>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/double-click-button.png"/>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/drag-click-button.png"/>
</p>
<p>
<link xref="switch-click-type">Click Type Buttons</link> are useful for people who can only perform single left clicks or taps.
They are not visible by default but can be shown easily by pressing the button with the left leaning arrow
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/click-helpers-button.png"/>.
Note, that in some of <app>Onboard's</app> smaller layouts this button is only reachable by long-pressing <key>Return</key>.</p>
<p>
Press <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/middle-click-button.png"/>, then click anywhere on screen to perform a middle click.
</p>
<p>
Press <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/right-click-button.png"/>, then click anywhere on screen to perform a right click.
</p>
<p>
Press <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/double-click-button.png"/>, then click anywhere on screen to perform a double click.
</p>
<p>
Press <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/drag-click-button.png"/>, then click anywhere on screen to start a drag operation. Click a second time to stop.
</p>
<p>Any of these actions can be cancelled by pressing the initiating button a second time.</p>
</section>
<section id="hover_type_button">
<title>Hover Click Button</title>
<p>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/hover-click-button.png"/>
</p>
<p>This button enables the <link xref="hover-click">Hover Click</link> feature of <app>mousetweaks</app>.</p>
<list>
<item><p>Press once to turn Hover Click on</p></item>
<item><p>Press again to turn it off</p></item>
<item><p>Hover over it for a while and it will turn on as well.</p></item>
</list>
<p>Hover Click settings can be changed on preferences page "Accessibility".</p>
<p>Note, that the path to the Hover Click button is hover-enabled as well. Onboard's floating icon and the left-leaning arrow button <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/click-helpers-button.png"/> can be activated by hovering, too.</p>
</section>
<section id="snippet_buttons">
<title>Snippet Buttons</title>
<p>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/snippet-buttons.png"/>
</p>
<p><link xref="snippet-usage">Snippet Buttons</link> insert arbitrary strings of text.
Switch to the snippets layer with <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/layer3-button.png"/> to see them.
</p>
<list>
<item><p>Press the button to insert an existing snippet, or, if still undefined, create a new one.</p></item>
<item><p>Long-press to edit a snippet</p></item>
</list>
<p>An overview of all snippets can also be found on preferences page "Snippets".</p>
<p>See also <link xref="snippet-definition"/>.</p>
</section>
</page>
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