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badp
Asked: 2011-03-16 03:57:12 +0800 CST

How can I display keyboard shortcuts as I press them?

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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?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

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    The original project by Pablo Seminario (2010-2012) is no longer maintained.

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  2. 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.
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