How To Install screenkey on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install screenkey in Fedora 36. screenkey is A screencast tool to display your keys

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install screenkey on Fedora 36.

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 Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install screenkey.

Install screenkey on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install screenkey

Install screenkey on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove screenkey

screenkey Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/screenkey
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/inputlistener.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/inputlistener.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/keysyms.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/keysyms.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/labelmanager.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/labelmanager.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/screenkey.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/screenkey.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/xlib.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/__pycache__/xlib.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/images
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/images/mouse.svg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/inputlistener.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/keysyms.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/labelmanager.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/ca
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/screenkey.mo
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/de
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/screenkey.mo
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/de_DE
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/screenkey.mo
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/es
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/screenkey.mo
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/fr
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/screenkey.mo
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/ru
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/screenkey.mo
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/uk
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/screenkey.mo
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/zh_CN
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/screenkey.mo
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/screenkey.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Screenkey/xlib.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/screenkey-1.5-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/screenkey-1.5-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/screenkey-1.5-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/screenkey-1.5-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/screenkey-1.5-py3.10.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/screenkey-1.5-py3.10.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/metainfo/org.thregr.screenkey.metainfo.xml

References

screenkey website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install screenkey on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).