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Port details on branch 2025Q2
showmethekey Show keys you typed on screen
1.18.3 x11 on this many watch lists=0 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 1.18.3Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: eduardo@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-05-30 10:33:06
Last Update: 2025-05-30 10:30:44
Commit Hash: 03915ad
Also Listed In: wayland
License: APACHE20
WWW:
https://showmethekey.alynx.one/
Description:
Show keys you typed on screen, so your audiences can see what you do clearly while you are streaming or recording. A screenkey alternative that works on both X11 and Wayland. Features: - Key events reading via libinput - Configurable floating window size - Click-through but dragable floating window - Temporary hiding support - Keymap handling via xkbcommon - Mouse button support
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Manual pages:
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pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. share/glib-2.0/schemas/one.alynx.showmethekey.gschema.xml
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/showmethekey-1.18.3/catalog.mk
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/showmethekey-1.18.3/LICENSE
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/showmethekey-1.18.3/APACHE20
  5. bin/showmethekey-cli
  6. bin/showmethekey-gtk
  7. share/applications/one.alynx.showmethekey.desktop
  8. share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/one.alynx.showmethekey.png
  9. share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/one.alynx.showmethekey.png
  10. share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/one.alynx.showmethekey.svg
  11. share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/showmethekey.mo
  12. share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/showmethekey.mo
  13. share/metainfo/one.alynx.showmethekey.metainfo.xml
  14. share/polkit-1/actions/one.alynx.showmethekey.policy
  15. share/polkit-1/rules.d/one.alynx.showmethekey.rules
  16. @owner
  17. @group
  18. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
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Dependency lines:
  • showmethekey>0:x11/showmethekey
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/x11/showmethekey/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install x11/showmethekey
  • pkg install showmethekey
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PKGNAME: showmethekey
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distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1748551537 SHA256 (AlynxZhou-showmethekey-v1.18.3_GH0.tar.gz) = dee790c12e4946587d5b9979ad3ec37862a0f59e300756db5c93e39cc4efa0ff SIZE (AlynxZhou-showmethekey-v1.18.3_GH0.tar.gz) = 5278234

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. evdev-proto>0 : devel/evdev-proto
  2. msgfmt : devel/gettext-tools
  3. meson : devel/meson
  4. ninja : devel/ninja
  5. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  6. x11.pc : x11/libX11
Runtime dependencies:
  1. pkexec : sysutils/polkit
  2. x11.pc : x11/libX11
Library dependencies:
  1. libevdev.so : devel/libevdev
  2. libinput.so : x11/libinput
  3. libjson-glib-1.0.so : devel/json-glib
  4. libudev.so : devel/libudev-devd
  5. libxkbcommon.so : x11/libxkbcommon
  6. libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  7. libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
  8. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  9. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  10. libgtk-4.so : x11-toolkits/gtk40
  11. libadwaita-1.so : x11-toolkits/libadwaita
  12. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  13. libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
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Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
x11_showmethekey
USES:
compiler:c11 gettext-tools gnome meson pkgconfig xorg
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Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/AlynxZhou/showmethekey/tar.gz/v1.18.3?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 1

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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1.18.3
30 May 2025 10:30:44
commit hash: 03915ade13ed7de6b6a5575efc6fed51f7cc576acommit hash: 03915ade13ed7de6b6a5575efc6fed51f7cc576acommit hash: 03915ade13ed7de6b6a5575efc6fed51f7cc576acommit hash: 03915ade13ed7de6b6a5575efc6fed51f7cc576a files touched by this commit
Nuno Teixeira (eduardo) search for other commits by this committer
x11/showmethekey: Update to 1.18.3

ChangeLog:
	Updated to fix undefined XKB_MOD_NAME_MOD5 in old XKBcommon
	Updated to adapt virtual modifier changes in XKBcommon v1.8

MFH:	2025Q2
(cherry picked from commit d5f9d44dc1ccb89b7046d0454c90ff95e7d47258)

Number of commits found: 1