Keyman Desktop must be installed and running before a Keyman Keyboard can be used. For help on installing Keyman Desktop, please see Installing Keyman Desktop.
Keyman Desktop is a keyboard management utility that makes it practical to input many different languages in almost any Windows application. Keyman Desktop fully supports Unicode, as well as legacy codepage-based applications.
Keyman Desktop includes features such as an on-screen keyboard, phonetic and visual-order input methods, and seamless integration with the Windows XP Language Bar. A full list of features in Keyman Desktop 7.0 is available here.
The companion package Keyman Developer gives you the tools to create your own professional keyboard layouts for Windows. Click here to read more about Keyman Developer.
Keyman Desktop 7.0 supports the following operating systems:
Microsoft Windows 95
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows Me
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (SP6 and later)
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
There are differences in the way Keyman Desktop works in some of these operating systems. Click here to read more information about using Keyman Desktop on your operating system.