IOK(1)IOK(1)NAME
iok- Indic Onscreen Keyboard
SYNOPSISiok [-a] [-h] [-d 1] [-n LANGCODE]
DESCRIPTION
Indic Onscreen Keyboard currently shows Inscript and Inscript2
keymaps for 22 official Indian languages. The languages are Assamese,
Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kokani, Maithili,
Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, San‐
tali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu.
The iok application runs in default and advanced mode. In default
mode, iok starts by loading Inscript2 keymap of the current locale. If
keymap is not installed or available then iok shows keymap list in the
default mode. User can then select any keymap from keymap list if he
want to write using it.
In the advanced mode, iok allows to open non-supported keymaps. If
keymap can be parsed by iok then it will be showed in iok UI otherwise
it will show error message that iok can't load this keymap. Advanced
mode also allows to create custom keymap by either swapping or re-
assigning character mappings in the existing loaded keymap in iok.
Another feature iok supports is Drag and Drop. This will allow
user to swap character mappings using mouse.
The keymap list shows Inscript and Inscript2 keymaps from location
/usr/share/m17n and ~/.m17n.d path.
To start iok in normal mode from console, use following command iok
To start iok in advanced mode from console, use following command iok-a
To start iok in any supported Inscript2 keymap (say in Marathi) use
following command iok-n mr
As Inscript2 keymap naming also uses language script code for some lan‐
guages, command to open those keymaps is like this iok-n pa-guru where
pa is a isocode name for the Punjabi language and guru is a language
script code name in which keymap is written.
To use Drag and Drop feature of iok, start iok from console as iok-d 1
The Draft version of Inscript2 keymaps are available at https://fedora‐
hosted.org/inscript2/
This project is available at http://fedorahosted.org/iok/ or
http://iok.sourceforge.net
OPTIONS-a It shows the menus and combo box in iok UI
-h It show the help
-d 1 This will enable Drag and Drop feature only for the single iok
invocation. Otherwise iok has disabled Drag and Drop by default.
-n LANGCODE
In the place of LANGCODE,you need to specify a particular lan‐
guage code. Shows iok UI for that particular language. This
will also requires language script code. e.g. for Bodo, Dogri,
Kokani, Nepali, Sindhi use its langcode and "-deva" as a lan‐
guage script code.
To start iok using Kokani keymap, run "iok -n kok-deva"
AUTHOR
Suji A <suji87.msc@gmail.com> , Parag <pnemade@fedoraproject.org>
March 12, 2012 IOK(1)
