Show Me The Key displays your keystrokes on screen for screencasts, presentations and tutorials. It reads events through libinput, so it works on both Wayland and X11 (unlike screenkey, which is X11-only).
Because reading /dev/input requires privilege, this snap is split into a root backend that runs as a system daemon and an unprivileged GTK frontend. Two manual steps are required after install:
# sensitive: grants the snap the ability to read all input events
sudo snap connect showmethekey:raw-input
sudo snap connect showmethekey:hardware-observe
On a Wayland session the floating key window can't place itself, so right-click its title bar and enable "Always on Top" and "Always on Visible Workspace".
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap can be installed from the command line. Open the Konsole terminal and enter the following:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
To install Show Me The Key, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install showmethekey --edge
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