siduck / bubbly

Show beautiful keystrokes & generate chat bubble widgets while typing on Linux

Bubbly

About

• Bubbly lets you create on-screen chat_bubble like widgets based on the keystrokes you type on the keyboard. It uses xinput to fetch the keys and puts them into an eww widget.

• It has 2 modes :

  • chat - Creates onscreen chat like widgets based on the keys you type in the form of sentences.
  • keystrokes - Creates onscreen widgets to show keystrokes, something like screenkey, keycaster etc.

Demo

Chat widget

vid.mp4

Keystrokes widget

keystrokes.mp4

full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxG1buUmJ2U

Requirements

• eww
• xinput
• dash

Install

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/siduck/bubbly/buttons/install.sh | sh

Usage

• Open the bubbly app from your app menu.