Programmer needed! (solved)
Dear Programmer,
can you please write me a little program that displays keystrokes on the screen? In a window that stays always on top, has no borders and sits silently in a corner of my recording area? And everytime I press a key it displays the pressed key(s), like “SHIFT-CTRL-A”, for a second or so?
I forget so often to tell the people the keys I press and they complain in e-mails.
Your reward will be FAME in the show credits and on the website. And of course 10% of the money the show earns after taxes. 
Thank You!
Rolf
PS: System: Ubuntu 7.10 plain vanilla, X11 with driver “nvidia”, and I know how to compile stuff.
January 6th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I’d like to point you to Key Status Monitor at:
http://programmer-art.org/projects/keystatus
And an other nice Tool for desktop videos is gromit:
http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/gromit/
January 6th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Thanks!
If this works like advertised - WHOW!
January 7th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Looks like gromit is in the Ubuntu repositories…
January 7th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I’ll give it a try. Question is: Does it work with the screen recorder? Both mess with the X system……
January 7th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Key Status Monitor and Gromit work with the screen recorder. Problem solved!
January 8th, 2008 at 12:30 am
Glad the key status monitor script is working for you. Just wanted to note that compiz (the “desktop effects” stuff) has a plugin to do annotations on the screen as well. You can enable it if you install compizconfig-settings-manager in Ubuntu. Here is a video of it http://youtube.com/watch?v=urA6foIO4WM&feature=related