How To Install screenkey on CentOS 8

screenkey is A screencast tool to display your keys

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install screenkey on CentOS 8.

What is `screenkey`

A screencast tool to display your keys, featuring * Several keyboard translation methods * Key composition/input method support * Configurable font/size/position * Highlighting of recent keystrokes * Improved backspace processing * Normal/Emacs/Mac caps modes * Multi-monitor support * Dynamic recording control etc.

We can use yum or dnf to install screenkey on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install screenkey.

Install screenkey on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install screenkey using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install screenkey

Install screenkey on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install screenkey using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install screenkey

How To Uninstall screenkey on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the screenkey package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove screenkey

screenkey Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/screenkey
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/inputlistener.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/inputlistener.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/keysyms.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/keysyms.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/labelmanager.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/labelmanager.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/screenkey.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/screenkey.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/xlib.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/xlib.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/inputlistener.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/keysyms.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/labelmanager.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/screenkey.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Screenkey/xlib.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/screenkey-1.2-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/screenkey-1.2-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/screenkey-1.2-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/screenkey-1.2-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/screenkey-1.2-py3.6.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/screenkey-1.2-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/share/applications/screenkey.desktop
/usr/share/doc/screenkey
/usr/share/doc/screenkey/NEWS.rst
/usr/share/doc/screenkey/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/screenkey
/usr/share/licenses/screenkey/COPYING.txt
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/screenkey.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/screenkey.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/screenkey.mo

References

screenkey website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install screenkey on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.