Superkb

Keyboard-based task launcher with on-screen hints.

How it works

It works by activating by holding down a magic key, usually the Super_L/R keys, and displaying on-screen hints if held down for long enough.

Features

• Designed not to get in your way, but still be helpful.
• Unobtrusive on-screen hints.
• Replayable magic key.
• Mod-order independent: L+Super works the same as Super+L.
• Configuration in plain text.
• Toolkit independent.
• Supports X11 keyboard geometries.
• 3 different algorithms to render your keyboard.
• Small memory footprint: 20 MB RES, 150 MB VIRT
• Small disk footprint: 250 KB dynamic binary, 2.5 M static binary.

Installation

Fedora (included in distro)

• Fedora users since F17 can install it directly using yum install superkb.

Ubuntu (manual compilation)

• Ubuntu users must manually compile it from source code. Some instructions for Debian and Ubuntu are available at https://github.com/alvarezp/superkb/wiki/Compilation-instructions-for-Superkb-0.21

Debian (manual compilation)

• Debian users must manually compile it from source code. Some instructions for Debian and Ubuntu are available at https://github.com/alvarezp/superkb/wiki/Compilation-instructions-for-Superkb-0.21