Key-Mon Shows Live Keyboard and Mouse Strokes for Teaching and Screencasts

Key-Mon is a small but handy application for Ubuntu that shows keypresses and mouse clicks in real time while you do your work. The application can be useful for teaching or making screencats. 

A look at its features:

• The window and buttons are scalable to any size.
• Different keyboard themes/styles supported.
• Can start without a window border to take up less space.
• Right click provides an application menu.
• Supports the META (aka Windows) key.
• Supports the scroll wheel.
• Supports all three mouse buttons.
• Swap the left and right mouse buttons for lefties.
• Support for touch tablets.
• Emulate middle click by clicking left and right mouse buttons.
• Visible mouse click. Briefly shows a circle where you clicked.
• Option to show only key combinations.

Key-mon can be configured using a GUI but you can also use terminal commands:

To run key-mon: $ key-mon
To get a list of available configuration commands: $ key-mon --help

Key-mon in action (watch in HD)



Download Key-mon from here

Also look at ScreenKey, a similar tool that makes making screencasts easy that we reviewed few days back: Screencast Your Keystrokes