screenkey VS scripts

Screenkey

That's screen key

Would http://carnackeys.com/ do for you? If you prefer a commercial solution https://www.recmaster.net/how-to/show-keystrokes-while-screen-recording-2 might be of interest, unless you want to switch to Linux and use https://gitlab.com/screenkey/screenkey

Not the exact solution but you can try screenkey

the app I'm making is basically a screenkey clone ( but would ideally be cross-platform ) and to get the app to show the keys the user is pressing I need global keyboard events so the user doesn't have to focus the window to get it to work ( like what winit does ),

You mean an on-screen display for keyboard input? screenkey, no idea about using it with OBS though.

There are tools like Screenkey1 that show every key you press. I'm however not aware of a tool that specifically only shows pressed keys that are bound in sxhkd.

Thanks for the kind words! The app I'm using here is called screenkey

Screenkey (https://gitlab.com/screenkey/screenkey) is a few thousand lines of python for a simple overlay showing the keys you just pressed, are there any less sucky alternatives?

See ex; https://github.com/Simon-Eklundh/scripts/blob/main/i3statusaddition.sh

So, the way that that module works I'm fairly certain is similar to how I used to do it in for the normal swaybar (https://github.com/Simon-Eklundh/scripts/blob/main/swaybarscript.sh) swaymsg -t get_tree ​|​ jq ​'​.. | select(.type?) | select(.focused==true).name​'​ As such,I don't think so.