This is essentially a Python clone of NohBoard which runs on Linux. Like distplay, I made this because there wasn't any pre-existing Linux-compatible keyboard input displays that I could find.
Note that this is not multiplatform, this will only run on Linux. If you're on Windows, just use the real NohBoard.
This works by reading the output of xinput test-xi2 --root
, so, y'know,
that's cool. Or maybe not cool. I don't know. I'm not going to say this
is well programmed, because that would probably be a huge lie.
Obviously, since this is a Python program, you'll need to first install Python with your package manager. You will also need to install Tk since that's what the program is using for its graphical interface.
🛈 Note that apparently some Linux distributions don't include the Python
tkinter
module by default, so you may need to install that seperately; on Ubuntu this would be thepython3-tk
package.
In order to run this, you need to run main.py
with one argument,
supplying a layout file. These are json files with a pretty simple
syntax - it shouldn't be too hard to figure it out. For demonstration
purposes, layouts for the default bindings of Distance and Celeste are
included in this repo (in the layouts
folder). If you want to add more,
fork and submit a PR, or something.
For your convenience, I've included a script, identify-keys.py
, that
will allow you to find out what keycode each key is mapped to. It's
missing a few of them, and was designed in mind with my UK keyboard,
but it will work for the majority of the keys.