wshowkeys

Displays keypresses on screen on supported Wayland compositors (requires wlr_layer_shell_v1 support).

https://github.com/DreamMaoMao/myshowkey/assets/30348075/944d9e92-ea6f-4017-9b50-11ba1a34ee32

Forked from https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/wshowkeys as Drew has moved onto other thigns.

Installation

arch

yay -S wshowkeys-mao-git

other

Dependencies:

• cairo
• libinput
• pango
• udev
• wayland
• xkbcommon

$ meson build
$ ninja -C build
# ninja -C build install
# sudo chmod a+s /usr/bin/wshowkeys

wshowkeys must be configured as setuid during installation. It requires root permissions to read input events. These permissions are dropped after startup.

Usage

wshowkeys [-b|-f|-s #RRGGBB[AA]] [-F font] [-t timeout]
    [-a top|left|right|bottom] [-m margin] [-o output]

• -b #RRGGBB[AA]: set background color
• -f #RRGGBB[AA]: set foreground color
• -s #RRGGBB[AA]: set color for special keys
• -F font: set font (Pango format, e.g. 'monospace 24')
• -t timeout: set timeout before clearing old keystrokes(ms)
• -a top|left|right|bottom: anchor the keystrokes to an edge. May be specified twice.
• -m margin: set a margin (in pixels) from the nearest edge
• -l lenmax: set the key layer lenmax
• -o output: request wshowkeys is shown on the specified output (unimplemented)

example:

wshowkeys -a bottom -F 'Sans Bold 30' -s '#B5B520ff' -f  '#ecd29cff' -b '#201B1488' -l 60