KeyPressOSD help
KeyPressOSD shows what you press, on screen, at a size somebody can read from across a room. It is for screencasts and presentations, for teaching and pair work, and for reading your own typing when the field you are typing into is small or far away.
Ten seconds of it working: typed characters arriving one at a time, a chord, Alt + Tab
counting up rather than flickering, the oldest entries scrolling off behind an ellipsis, the fade, and then
the same keyboard read as words in typing mode. The same tour is
a video if you would rather watch it at full size.
Contents
| What KeyPressOSD does | What it is for, the two modes, and the three situations it was built for. |
| Showing keystrokes | Chords, repeat counts, what flows and what stacks, and the separators between presses. |
| Showing typed text | One line of words that never wraps, editing it as you go, and the caret. |
| Where it appears | Which corner or edge, which monitor, the margin, and what happens under the pointer. |
| How it looks | Colours, fonts, spacing, the panel outline, twenty-one themes, and the live preview. |
| Key names and symbols | Where key names come from, the three symbol styles side by side, and overriding one key. |
| Hotkeys | The three defaults, how to change them, and what to do when one does nothing. |
| The tray menu | Every command in it, the tooltip, and the two rows about running as administrator. |
| Privacy | What it never does, the exclusion list, and the two files it writes. |
| The settings file | KeyPressOSD.json, the Advanced tab, undo and reset, and editing it by hand. |
| Troubleshooting | Nothing appearing, a display you cannot find, the crash log, and what to put in a report. |
| Known limitations | Elevated windows, Print Screen, and what is out of scope by design rather than by omission. |
| About KeyPressOSD | What it needs, which build you are running, updates, the licence, and where things are. |
| Contact | Where to report a problem, what to put in the report, and when to use email instead. |
In a hurry
| Press | What happens |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+Alt+P | Pause and resume recording. The tray icon is grey while paused. |
| Ctrl+Alt+K | Switch between keystrokes and typing. |
| Ctrl+Alt+C | Clear what is on screen now. |
| Double-click the tray icon | Settings - around fifty of them in nine tabs, with a search box that looks inside the explanations as well as the labels. |
| Right-click the tray icon | The menu: pause, mode, settings, this manual, and running elevated. |
Everything on this site is also in the CHM (KeyPressOSD.chm, or Help in the tray
menu), which is built from these same files.