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Show Me The Key

By Alex Murray Star developer

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Version1.21.0
Revision6
LicenseApache-2.0
Confinementstrict
Basecore24

Show the keys you type on screen (Wayland and X11)


Show Me The Key displays your keystrokes on screen for screencasts,
presentations and tutorials. It reads events through libinput, so it
works on both Wayland and X11 (unlike screenkey, which is X11-only).

Because reading /dev/input requires privilege, this snap is split into
a root backend that runs as a system daemon and an unprivileged GTK
frontend. Two manual steps are required after install:

 # sensitive: grants the snap the ability to read all input events
 sudo snap connect showmethekey:raw-input
 sudo snap connect showmethekey:hardware-observe


On a Wayland session the floating key window can't place itself, so
right-click its title bar and enable "Always on Top" and "Always on
Visible Workspace".

Update History

1.21.0 (6)
11 Aug 2026, 03:45 UTC

Published11 Aug 2026, 03:08 UTC

Last updated10 Aug 2026, 13:39 UTC

First seen11 Aug 2026, 03:45 UTC