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screenkey

A screencast tool to display keys pressed.

TLDR

Display keys which are currently being pressed on the screen

$ screenkey
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Display keys and mouse buttons which are currently being pressed on the screen
$ screenkey --mouse
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Launch the settings menu of screenkey
$ screenkey --show-settings
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Launch screenkey at a specific position
$ screenkey --position [top|center|bottom|fixed]
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Change the format of the key modifiers displayed on screen
$ screenkey --mods-mode [normal|emacs|mac|win|tux]
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Change the appearance of screenkey
$ screenkey --bg-color "[#a1b2c3]" --font [Hack] --font-color [yellow] --opacity [0.8]
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Drag and select a window on screen to display screenkey
$ screenkey --position fixed --geometry [$(slop -n -f '%g')]
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SYNOPSIS

screenkey

DESCRIPTION

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.

screenkey --help gives all options with their explanations.

COPYRIGHT


Copyright © 2012-2017 Georges Khaznadar

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

AUTHOR

Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>

Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

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