Free keyboard piano software for linux

vkeyd is a Linux daemon, forked from ikeyd, used to change volumes from keyboard hotkeys outside of X, or if the keyboard has been captured, as happens with SDL applications.

KeyFrog is a tool for generating keyboard usage statistics. User obtains many informations about his activity: how intensive was his keyboard usage, how was it distributed in time, etc.

This project can be very useful to developers. The project is under fast development, first releases comming soon.

keyTouch makes it possible to easily configure the extra function keys of a keyboard (like multimedia keys). keyTouch it allows the user to define which program will be executed when a key is pressed.

KeyTouch is a program which allows you to easily configure the extra function keys of your keyboard. This means that you can define, for every individual function key, what to do if it is pressed.

When you buy a new keyboard a CD-ROM will probably included. This CD-ROM contains software to configure the extra function keys (the image above shows an example of extra function keys) of your keyboard with. The problem however is that most of the times the software is not available for Linux.

KeyTouch is the solution to this problem. It allows you to easily configure the extra funtion keys of your keyboard.

KBDE is a keyboard emulator. It allow emulate keyboard input for keyboardless x86 computers.
KBDE include following:
- linux kernel module
- user-space tools
- development library
Enhancements:
- Support was added for Linux kernel versions 2.6.20 and later.

Keyplex is a keyboard multiplexer for X11 terminals. The project will spawn a number of terminals, and when it has focus it relays all keystrokes and mouse button 2 (paste) to them.

Installation:

The usual ./configure && make && make install

Rosegarden project is a professional audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.
Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments.
Main features:
- Score, piano-roll, event list and track overview editors
- MIDI and audio playback and recording with ALSA and JACK
- Audio plugin support using LADSPA
- Score interpretation of performance MIDI data
- MIDI file I/O, Csound, Lilypond and MusicXML export
- Clear and consistent KDE-based user interface
- Shareable device (.rgd) files to ease MIDI portability
- Translations into Russian, Spanish, German, French, Welsh, Italian, Swedish and Estonian, as well as UK and US English.
Enhancements:
- * Avoid xruns on exit
- Fix the guitar clef (was treble -15, should be treble -8)
- Fix failure to export all tracks when exporting to MIDI
- Fix export of empty lyrics to Lilypond
- Make project packager errors a bit more helpful
- Skip non-MIDI tracks when exporting to Lilypond
- Initialise LADSPA plugin buffers to zero if running only for latency calculation
- Dont send bank or program changes for unused instruments (it could override program changes for instruments that are in use)
- Fix incorrect label display on track buttons after popping up but not selecting from the right-button menu, if Show Track Labels is not set
- Add a couple of new instrument definitions
- Update Swedish, Czech and Japanese translations

JRainWords project is a utility which aids in teaching children how to use a computer keyboard.

JRainWords is a small educational tool I have developed for my nephews.

JRainWords is a Java program useful in teaching children how to use a computer keyboard.

It works with Linux, Windows and with every other platform supported by the SUN Java 2 Virtual Machine 1.4.0. The words in the default list are English, but can be easily replaced (a file with Italian words is included).