kbt 1.1.0

Keyboard tester in terminal
kbt-1.1.0 is not a library.

kbt-gif

Motivation

I got tired with semi-broken online keyboard testers, so here we go – one on a solid platform – terminal.

Features

  • Caputres key presses directly from X server
  • Multiple keyboard layouts
  • Interactive menu

Limitations

  • Only supports Linux running Xorg

Installation

AUR

paru -S kbt

Cargo

cargo install kbt

note: Default location of the installed binary is $HOME/.cargo/bin

Prebuilt binaries

You can grab built binary from the latest release (only linux-x86_64)

Building from source

  1. make build
  2. cp target/release/kbt /usr/local/bin/

Prerequisites

  • rust

Acknowledgments

Built with ratatui