indicator-xkbmod (Unity XKB Modifier Indicator)

Keyboard modifiers state indicator for Ubuntu Unity desktop. As current state, it's just a prototype.

Unity lacks such accessibility tools which most likely needed when sticky keys is activated.
See How to add a keyboard modifier state applet to Unity panel?.

Related Bugs Report

• lp#773078 Should display the StickyKeys status in some way (a11y)
• lp#1306584 No keyboard state applet in Unity

Install

• From daily build PPA

https://code.launchpad.net/~sneetsher/+recipe/indicator-xkbmod-daily

• From source

    autoreconf -vif
    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install
  

• From locally built Debian package

(much cleanner then make install)

    debuild -us -uc
    sudo dpkg -i ../indicator-xkbmod*.deb

Running Options

• Icon mode (Default):

    indicator-xkbmod
  

• Label mode:

    indicator-xkbmod -l
  

• Filter needed modifiers (10110011 binary = 205 decimal, Default: 255)

    indicator-xkbmod -f 205
  

  shows only shift,control,alt,super,altgr

Gnome-Shell/Gnome3 Support

Note: May be better if you look for native extention, so try first https://github.com/sneetsher/Keyboard-Modifiers-Status

Currently, it can be run only in label mode (-l) using gnome-shell-extension-appindicator which integrates Ubuntu AppIndicators and KStatusNotifierItems into Gnome Shell.

The extension could be installed easily from https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/615/appindicator-support/ .