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, Active, Latched, Locked) in Wayland, (Off, Active) in Xorg session dropped from Gnome-shell 49

Install

Choose a method

• Simply, from Gnome extensions portal site

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

• Manually

  1. Download source archive and extract it or clone repo.

  2. Install with:

     gnome-extensions pack
     gnome-extensions install keyboard_modifiers_status@*.zip
     

  3. Logout/login.

  4. Enable it:

     gnome-extensions enable keyboard_modifiers_status@sneetsher
     

Preferences

• The preferences window allows customizing modifier mappings and display symbols. Symbols can be adjusted individually, loaded from presets or saved as a custom preset.

  gnome-extensions prefs keyboard_modifiers_status@sneetsher
  

• Prefrences are accessible through CLI to using gsettings or if you prefer a wrapper ./scripts/gset from this repo. Example:

  ## at left within menu corner, last position
  ./scripts/gset set panel-side LEFT
  ./scripts/gset set indicator-order -1
  
  ## at center with date, first position
  ./scripts/gset set panel-side CENTER
  ./scripts/gset set indicator-order 0
  
  ## list all, reset all to default
  ./scripts/gset
  ./scripts/gset reset-recursively
  

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 alternative solution. Check HACKING.md file.