BSD Ports

x11/showkeys g20191004 DragonFly

Display keystrokes during screencasts or presentations

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv3
Categories
x11
Package size
15.7 KiB, 44.5 KiB installed

Description

Showkeys is a simple program to display keys being pressed on the screen.

It is useful while making presentations and screencasts. The audience will be able to see the keys being pressed.

It is similar to key-mon. Key-mon has more features than showkeys. The advantages of showkeys are

  1. Doesn't use GTK/GNOME.
  2. Uses libXosd to display keys directly onto the screen.
  3. No floating windows that always need to be on top. This is very useful if you're using a tiling WM like Xmonad.
  4. Keystroke history. key-mon has this but doesn't show modifiers. showkeys does this using an Emacs style key notation.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlyx11/showkeysg20191004
FreeBSDx11/showkeysg20191004
HardenedBSDx11/showkeysg20191004
GhostBSDx11/showkeysg20191004

Install

Binary package:

pkg install showkeys

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11/showkeys && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 5

No port depends on this one.