On Tue, 2019-02-05 at 21:54 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2019-02-05 at 11:15 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 2/5/19 9:33 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > That's not what I'm saying. As with most of these widgets onboard is
> > for typing using the screen instead of a keyboard. I don't care about
> > that. The MacOS widget (formally called Key Caps and now called
> > Keyboard Viewer) allows me to *see* the keycaps in the onscreen
> > keyboard image change as I press the Ctrl, Alt etc. key combinations,
> > to show what the resulting input *would be* if I typed them. I don't
> > mind it also entering the character if I click on it, but that's not
> > the point.
>
> I'm not quite sure what you're meaning, but in gnome settings, region &
> language, you can bring up a keyboard picture that will highlight keys
> as you press them.
I use KDE. I was hoping for something DE-independent, but will take a
KDE equivalent if one exists.
I just checked the Gnome widget. It's just a slightly better-looking
version of xkeycaps and doesn't do what I'm talking about.
poc