pykeyview

A simple OSD display using (pygtk) for displaying keystrokes. Possibly useful for screencasts or presentations (live coding!).

Uses/includes pyxhook.py from pykeylogger.sf.net as such it is available under the terms of GPL2.

requires

python bindings for X >= 1.4 xorg >= 1.7.6

Note

As per Bug 20500 [0] X record extension is borked on versions < 1.7.6(?). The author is running 1.7.6 and it is working again!

0 - http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20500

TODO

• Move to cairo?

• Catch ctr-c signal and kill thread - DONE

• Right click context menu

  • Quit - DONE
  • Toggle listen - DONE
  • Transparency?
  • Font size control - DONE
  • Mapping to replaces chars/keystrokes - DONE
  • Only listen to certain app

Similar Tools

CommandLog mode is an emacs specific minor mode [1]

key-mon is a linux utility more towards keyboard/mouse commands [2]

1 - http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CommandLogMode 2 - http://code.google.com/p/key-mon/