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 on openSUSE Leap 15.x and Tumbleweed.
You need first add the snappy repository from the terminal. Choose the appropriate command depending on your installed openSUSE flavor.
Tumbleweed:
sudo zypper addrepo --refresh https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_Tumbleweed snappy
Leap 15.x:
sudo zypper addrepo --refresh https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_Leap_15.6 snappy
If needed, Swap out openSUSE_Leap_15. for, openSUSE_Leap_16.0 if you’re using a different version of openSUSE.
With the repository added, import its GPG key:
sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh
Finally, upgrade the package cache to include the new snappy repository:
sudo zypper dup --from snappy
Snap can now be installed with the following:
sudo zypper install snapd
You then need to either reboot, logout/login or source /etc/profile to have /snap/bin added to PATH.
Additionally, enable and start both the snapd and the snapd.apparmor services with the following commands:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.apparmor
To install Show Me The Key, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install showmethekey --edge
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