From the Canyon Edge -- :-Dustin

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

key-mon, now in the Ubuntu Oneiric Archive


 Howdy!

Several people have asked me about the super sweet on-screen keyboard in the bottom right corner of the Byobu video I presented at UDS...

Ted Gould introduced me to an awesome Google Code project called key-mon, by Scott Kirkwood.

He actually had Debian/Ubuntu packaging along with his source code, so I just reviewed, built it, and uploaded it to the Ubuntu Oneiric universe archive.

Once you've installed it, it's trivial to use...  You can run it directly from Applications -> Graphics -> KeyMon.  Or you can run key-mon from the command line, where there are numerous options, which are detailed in the manpage.

Big thanks to the developers of key-mon, for the useful tool!  I can this being very helpful for many Ubuntu screencasts, demonstrations, and classrooms.  Give it try ;-)

Cheers!
:-Dustin

4 comments:

  1. While you're at it, could you include Screenkey [1] too? It's similar to key-mon and shares some code. It's shows input as a banner at the bottom of the screen. Take a look at the video [2].

    CU
    Christoph

    [1] https://launchpad.net/screenkey
    [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GqCu0wI-hc

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  2. Thanks for the pointer, Christoph. I'll contact the author and offer to upload to Ubuntu!

    :-Dustin

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  3. Hey Dustin, this would be really great! Thanks for your work!

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  4. Christoph,

    It's now in the Oneiric archive.

    Cheers,
    :-Dustin

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:-Dustin

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