termkeymonitor 1.4.5

Display pressed keys in the terminal

⌨️ Terminal Key Monitor 📟

Show pressed keys in the terminal. Useful e.g. when recording asciinema screencasts.

termkeymonitor connects directly to a local input device using evdev.

📥 Installation

# from PyPI
pip install termkeymonitor
# directly from GitLab
pip install git+https://gitlab.com/nobodyinperson/termkeymonitor.git

❓ Usage

# use any of the below commands to invoke
termkeymonitor
python -m termkeymonitor
python3 -m termkeymonitor

🎥 Screencast

⚠️ Caveats

• no Windows and MacOS support (Apparently evdev only works on Linux... 😔, might need to use some other backend like pynput in the future)
• needs a local keyboard connected so doesn't work as expected on remote machines (e.g. via SSH)
• Make sure you have permissions to access the /dev/input/event* files (this normally means you need to add yourself to the input group)