Sticky keys notification

[jeffrx]

Hello. I have a spinal cord injury and only have about 25% of one hand. I can type pretty well with the help of sticky keys. On gnome (classic) there is a panel add on called Keyboard Accessability Status that helps me keep up with which key is activated. Is there a comparable indicator for xfce? Sticky keys works but it really helps to know which key was activated because I often hit a key by mistake. I would like to switch to xfce but this is a problem for me. Thank you in advance for your help.

[kenoby31]

Hello. I have a spinal cord injury and only have about 25% of one hand. I can type pretty well with the help of sticky keys. On gnome (classic) there is a panel add on called Keyboard Accessability Status that helps me keep up with which key is activated. Is there a comparable indicator for xfce? Sticky keys works but it really helps to know which key was activated because I often hit a key by mistake. I would like to switch to xfce but this is a problem for me. Thank you in advance for your help.


Hello friend

The first, sorry for my bad English, I am Spanish

In xfce desktop evironment you can try with "keymon", keymon can found it in "ubuntu software center", Keymon show whitch key has been hit in the moment, also show it activity of mouse.

Once is installed, you can run it from menu >> graps >> keymon

I hope has been help to you

Best regards

[jeffrx]

Thank you very much...Will try this.

[mikodo]

Looks like kenoby31, nailed it for you.

From Ubuntu Manual here (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/pt_BR/man1/key-mon.1.html)

Keymon creates a small, borderless window which always stays topmost and monitors the keystrokes and mouse buttons used at any time in any program.

:>)

[kurtma]

Hi,

I use sticky keys, and I also need some kind of visual indication of which key/keys are active.

I tried KeyMon, but it only shows for about a second which key I just pressed. I need something that shows when one of the Shift, Ctrl and Alt keys is active.

Another program - gnome-sticky-keys-applet - is mentioned in this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1334651&highlight=sticky+keys

However, since I'm new at linux, I do not understand how to install it (I'm not sure which folder to download to, or exactly what I should write in the terminal).

Can anyone recommend another solution, or perhaps advise on how to install gnome-sticky-keys-applet (http://people.gnome.org/~chema/sticky-keys/)?

[jeffrx]

Anything in the new(er) versions of xfce that address this. Would love to use xfce, but this one issue makes it difficult for me.