Keyboard Status Applet

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net

Description:

A simple plasmoid that displays the keyboard/input-device state.

For example, it displays current state of:
* num lock status
* caps lock status
* scroll lock status
* And some others.

AUTHORS
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* Copyright (c) 2004 Gunnar Schmi Dt
* Copyright (c) 2008 Sebastian Sauer

* IMPORTANT:
* This plasmoid is NOT authored by me.
* Its not a part of KDE yet and thus many distros lack it as of now (Nov 09).
* I only wish it to be here for those who need it real bad,
* for accessibility reasons or otherwise.
* Source taken from Ubuntu's Karmic packages but is not dependent on Ubuntu in ANY way.

Install
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Extract the downloaded source file to a directory
Open Konsole and cd to that directory

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ../
make
# if successful, do:
sudo make install
kbuildsycoca4

Other
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Ubuntu and OpenSUSE probably carry this in their repository already.

Last changelog:

11 years ago

VERSION: plasmoid-kbstate-2.0~svn906377

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harry-gebel
4 months ago

10 I am still using KDE thanks to this applet. For sticky key users, it turns KDE from borderline unusable to easy mode.

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Montblanc
10 years ago

Apart from resizing problems... it really looks AWFUL. I was looking for a nice and polished widget that integrates into the the traybar. Do we really have no other choice?

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Montblanc
10 years ago

Ok, I found something interesting: http://gitorious.org/keystate

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aseques
5 years ago

Since gitorious is closing down, the project seems to have moved here: https://github.com/xdarklight/keystate-plasmoid

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dovidhalevi
11 years ago

Compare to a kde3 panel applet of similar idea. When placed on the panel or size reduced similarly, this thing should have an iconized view. Right now, attempted scale to smaller sub-icon sizes fails.

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okichatan
11 years ago

Agree - the default setup takes up a lot of panel space and removing unneeded indicators causes the remaining ones to unlarge to the point where the label/icon is hidden under the bottom of the monitor.
Sigh...

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