Keyboard display on monitor

[Jesus Jr M Salvo]

On 18/06/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 23:05 +1000, Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote:
> > Maybe a bit OT, but after installing F7 and playing around with the
> > login manager under the Options menu, my notebook suddenly displayed
> > this keyboard display on the notebook's monitor itself:
> >
> > http://members.optusnet.com.au/jesus.salvo/p6160028.jpg
> >
> > If I move the mouse, the pointer that is over the "keyboard" also
> > move. If I select "Menu" on the top left corner, the rows of keys are
> > highlighted, one row at a time, from top to bottom. If I select "Menu"
> > again, the individual keys are highlighted from left to right. Anyway,
> > I could not get rid of the keyboard display.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what it is ?
>
> It told you, itself.  It's "GOK."  Which, I seem to recall, stood for
> Gnome On-screen Keyboard.  Anyway, it's something like that (I'm not
> sure if the G stands for Gnome).  It allows you to enter keyboard data
> when you don't have keyboard available, or for can't use one for
> disability reasons, etc.

Ah! Thanks. I did not realise such a thing existed. I thought for
awhile it was a built-in function of my notebook that I do not know
about.

>
> I would have thought that the preferences button would have allowed you
> to disable it.  If you have no need for it, try removing the package,
> once you manage to log in.  But you might want to look at the
> accessibility preferences, first.  You may have accidentally activated
> it (I seem to recall that multiple presses of the shift key, or
> something near it, was a trigger to activate it).
>
> P.S. You might try turning off the flash when you photograph a screen.
> A flash doesn't help when photographing something that is its own light
> source.
>

Point taken.

Regards,

John