Keyboard Modifiers Status - Gnome-Shell Extension

A Gnome-Shell extension that shows keyboard modifiers status. It is more useful when accessibility feature - sticky keys is active.

Current supported features:

• Indicates status of these modifiers: Shift, Caps, Control, Alt, AltGr, Meta/Cmd, Num, (Scroll?)
• Shows these states: (Off, Latched, Locked) in Wayland, (Off, Active) in Xorg

Install

Choose a method

• Simply, from Gnome extensions portal site

  https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/975/keyboard-modifiers-status/

• Manually

  1. Extract it into a subfolder keyboard_modifiers_status@sneetsher in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/

      unzip keyboard_modifiers_status@sneetsher.zip -d ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/keyboard_modifiers_status@sneetsher
     

     or

      make install
     

  2. Restart gnome-shell, using Alt+F2 then r+Enter with Xorg or logout/login with Wayland.

  3. Enable it

      gnome-extensions enable keyboard_modifiers_status@sneetsher
     

Extras

• Enable an extension for all users (machine-wide)

  See https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/extensions-enable.html.en

Alternatives

• https://github.com/kazysmaster/gnome-shell-extension-lockkeys

• https://github.com/caasiu/gnome-shell-extension-KeysIndicator

• https://github.com/marf41/stickind

Modifier indication (Push to a fix upstream in Gnome-shell)

• Feature Request/Bug Report: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/4706

Developer hints

For anyone looking to modify it or creating anternative solution. Check HACKING.md file.