kbt

(kbt board tester)

Motivation

I got tired with semi-broken online keyboard testers, so here we are – one on a solid platform – terminal.

Features

• Multiple keyboard layouts
• Interactive menu
• Linux, MacOS, Windows support

Limitations

• Wayland is not supported

Installation

Arch Linux

pacman -S kbt

nix

nix-shell -p kbt

Cargo

cargo install kbt

note: Default location of the installed binary is $HOME/.cargo/bin

Homebrew

brew tap bloznelis/tap
brew install kbt

note: During the first run you might need to grant Accessibility access.

Prebuilt binaries

Grab a binary from the latest release

Building from source

1. make build
2. cp target/release/kbt /usr/local/bin/

Prerequisites

• rust

Acknowledgments

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