Re: Looking for sofware to display keystrokes as they are typed, for demos

2010-08-17 Thread Ted Roche
On 08/17/2010 09:06 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote: > At least on my Debian box there's a "logkeys" package available > that might serve if you can maybe find a way to tail its output > in an on-screen window during your presentation. I like the idea of tailing a keylogger to display keystrokes. Prett

Re: Looking for sofware to display keystrokes as they are typed, for demos

2010-08-17 Thread Michael ODonnell
At least on my Debian box there's a "logkeys" package available that might serve if you can maybe find a way to tail its output in an on-screen window during your presentation. Here's a fragment of example output it captured while I was composing this email with vi as launched from exmh: 2010-

Re: Looking for sofware to display keystrokes as they are typed, for demos

2010-08-13 Thread Tom Buskey
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > > It would be really helpful if there could be a pop-up or > > persistent window that would display a ring buffer of the last 4 seconds > > of keystrokes, in a large font, so it would be a

Re: Looking for sofware to display keystrokes as they are typed, for demos

2010-08-13 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > It would be really helpful if there could be a pop-up or > persistent window that would display a ring buffer of the last 4 seconds > of keystrokes, in a large font, so it would be apparent which keystrokes > I was hitting. There's an X protoc

Looking for sofware to display keystrokes as they are typed, for demos

2010-08-13 Thread Ted Roche
My Google-fu has failed me, in trying to come up with the keywords to successfully search for this: I'd like to do some training work where I'll be showing students how to work through an application. They keystrokes I use might not be apparent (Ctrl-W, tab, etc.), aren't echoed to the screen by t