How To Install screenkey on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn 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 yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install screenkey

Install screenkey on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -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

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Summary

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