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I'm going to be giving a short "talk" about efficient note taking with LyX. As such it'll be important to focus on keyboard shortcuts. Since people can't see me type, however, I want a tool that displays keyboard combinations as I press them, like this:

"Yo dawg, I done press Ctrl-M", written in a corner while I use LyX

I'm sure I've read about something like this on OMG Ubuntu!, but my google-fu is weak.

Ideas?

jokerdino
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badp
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Screenkey

Screenkey is a screencast tool to display your keys inspired by Screenflick for Mac OS and based initially on key-mon project. It’s useful to create screencasts and is also a powerful teaching tool.

sudo apt install screenkey

For older versions of Ubuntu you can download screenkey .deb file from launchpad directly.

screenshot

The original project by Pablo Seminario (2010-2012) is no longer maintained.

Pablo Bianchi
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Lincity
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This is an old post but still well referenced.

Here a 2020 update:

  • screenkey is still maintained but is not really useful for most screencast tasks.
  • kmcaster is also actively maintained, is not packaged, but the packaged .jar should run on ubuntu. and it shows what most people would expect.
a.l.e
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  • kmcaster is indeed a good recommmendation. The JAR file is hidden in the middle of the page at "Download", and requires most recent Java JRE versions. – foo Mar 22 '21 at 17:27
  • 2024-03: kmcaster link dead. Try xev, see here https://superuser.com/questions/248517/show-keys-pressed-in-linux – dez93_2000 Mar 25 '24 at 16:28