kbt

(kbt board tester)

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

• Works on Linux, but not on Wayland
• Might work on MacOS (not tested)
• Does not work on Windows

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