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About Show Me The Key
Show Me The Key displays your keystrokes on screen while you type, which is useful for tutorials, screencasts and live streams. It started as a SUSE Hack Week project to replace screenkey, which does not work under Wayland.
Instead of relying on X11, it reads input through libinput, so it works on Wayland desktops as well. The project includes a GTK front end and a separate command-line component.
Strengths
- Works under Wayland through libinput
- Useful overlay for tutorials and streams
- GTK interface plus a CLI component
Limitations
- Linux only
- Reading input through libinput needs elevated permissions
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to use, with source code published on GitHub.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Alynx Zhou
- Platforms
- Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Linux users recording tutorials or streaming on Wayland
- Categories
- Screen capture
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Show Me The Key
Compare allSoftware that can replace Show Me The Key for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Screenkey
A Linux screencast tool that shows the keys you press on screen while recording.
Screenkey is open source under GPL-3.0 with a preferences dialog and regular tagged releases, but is not described as supporting Wayland.
Keyviz
Show keyboard shortcuts and mouse actions during demonstrations.
Keyviz is open source under GPL-3.0 on Windows, macOS and Linux and shows mouse actions, but its Linux support requires X11 and a source build.
KeyCastr
An open-source macOS keystroke visualizer that shows your key presses on screen during screencasts.
KeyCastr is an open-source keystroke visualizer for macOS only, installable through Homebrew, so switching means moving from Linux to macOS.
Carnac
Show pressed keys during Windows demonstrations and recordings.
Carnac is a free, open-source keystroke display for Windows under MS-PL, so switching means moving from Linux to Windows.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
Kooha
A simple GTK screen recorder for Linux with a minimal interface, supporting Wayland and X11.
OBS Studio
The standard free tool for recording a screen and for live streaming, built around scenes and sources.
wf-recorder
A command-line screen recorder for wlroots-based Wayland compositors, using ffmpeg for encoding.
Blue Recorder
A simple desktop screen recorder built with GTK4 and FFmpeg, with Wayland support on GNOME and KDE.
