Keyboard-based task launcher with on-screen hints.
It works by activating by holding down a magic key, usually the Super_L/R keys, and displaying on-screen hints if held down for long enough.
- Designed not to get in your way, but still be helpful.
- Unobtrusive on-screen hints.
- Replayable magic key.
- Mod-order independent: L+Super works the same as Super+L.
- Configuration in plain text.
- Toolkit independent.
- Supports X11 keyboard geometries.
- 3 different algorithms to render your keyboard.
- Small memory footprint: 20 MB RES, 150 MB VIRT
- Small disk footprint: 250 KB dynamic binary, 2.5 M static binary.
- Fedora users since F17 can install it directly using
yum install superkb.
- Ubuntu users must manually compile it from source code. Some instructions for Debian and Ubuntu are available at https://github.com/alvarezp/superkb/wiki/Compilation-instructions-for-Superkb-0.21
- Debian users must manually compile it from source code. Some instructions for Debian and Ubuntu are available at https://github.com/alvarezp/superkb/wiki/Compilation-instructions-for-Superkb-0.21