Keyboard Status Monitor (key-mon)

Utility to show live keyboard and mouse status for teaching and screencasts.

--theme=apple, cool new theme.

--smaller parameter:

--larger parameter:

--scale=2.0, and --meta parameter (for 'Windows' key), and mouse turned off through menu.

You can show multiple presses (here up to 2) by using --old-keys. Here I pressed 'Y', 'Y', 'P', which means something in vi.

--nomouse --old-keys 2:

--sticky

Support for sticky keys

--only_combo

Show only combination keys like Ctrl-A

Features:

• The window and buttons are scalable to any size.
• Different keyboard themes/styles supported, for example the Mac look.
• Can start without a window border and semi transparent to take up less space and be less intrusive.
• Right click provides an application menu.
• Supports the META (aka Windows) key.
• Supports the scroll wheel.
• Supports all three mouse buttons.
• Should support multiple mouses or keyboards.
• Move the window by dragging from anywhere inside.
• Swap the left and right mouse buttons for lefties.
• Support for touch tablets.
• Emulate middle click by clicking left and right mouse buttons.
• When the dialog is smaller a different set of images are used for a better look.
• Support for foreign keyboards.
• Ability to make your own keyboard scancode maps, for when the defaults don't work.
• Visible mouse click. Briefly show's a circle where you clicked.
• Option to show only key combinations.
• Support for accessibility feature, sticky keys

• Release Notes

Requirements:

• Linux or equivalent.
• GTK+
• pyGtk 2.0 (python-gtk2)
• XLib (python-xlib)
• X.Org "record" module.
• librsvg2-common library

Distributions

• Arch Linux (AUR): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/key-mon/
• Debian:
• Fedora:
• Linux Mint: http://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/key-mon
• Mageia: http://mageia.madb.org/package/show/release/3/name/key-mon
• Ubuntu: https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/key-mon/

Installation:

From zip. Download the zip file and unzip into a directory.

unzip key-mon*.zip cd key-mon* sudo python setup.py install

From deb package. sudo dpkg -i key-mon*.deb

Via pip. % pip key-mon or sometimes % sudo pip key-mon

To run just type: % key-mon

You can make the dialog --smaller or --larger.

Ex. key-mon --smaller

Here's the help:

``` $ key-mon --help Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -s, --smaller Make the dialog 25% smaller than normal. -l, --larger Make the dialog 25% larger than normal. -m, --meta Show the meta (windows) key. --nomouse Hide the mouse. --noshift Hide the shift key. --noctrl Hide the ctrl key. --noalt Hide the alt key. --scale=SCALE Scale the dialog. ex. 2.0 is 2 times larger, 0.5 is half the size. --kbdfile=KBD_FILE Use this kbd filename instead running xmodmap. --swap Swap the mouse buttons. --emulate-middle When you press the left, and right mouse buttons at the same time, it displays as a middle mouse button click. -v, --version Show version information and exit. -t THEME, --theme=THEME The theme to use when drawing status images (ex. "-t apple").

Developer Options: These options are for developers.

-d, --debug         Output debugging information.
--screenshot=SCREENSHOT
                    Create a "screenshot.png" and exit. Pass a comma separated list of keys to simulate (ex. "KEY_A,KEY_LEFTCTRL").

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Bugs/Features

• If you found a bug please click this link.
• If you want to request a feature please click this link.
• To see the list of outstanding bugs/feature requests click here.
• Do you use key-mon, why don't you add your name to the list of users?

Thanks:

• Original concept from from Daniel G. Taylor (from the program key-status-monitor). Daniel also contributed a lot of the pretty themes.
• Original keyboard artwork by Jakub Steiner (jimmac).