Keystroke Counter

fukawi2 · 2008-12-31 06:25:31

Yes, it's 5.30pm on New Years Eve and I'm worried about counting keystrokes

Does anyone know if there's a keystroke counter (not logger) for Linux / Gnome?

pyther · 2008-12-31 20:18:07

Why the heck would you want anything like this?

fukawi2 · 2009-01-01 00:16:10

To scare myself

dmz · 2009-01-01 00:39:58

That would be pretty fun..

Procyon · 2009-01-01 01:18:13

I think I got it:

part 1 : logging

sudo cat /dev/input/event1 > ~/keyboard1.txt

look through ls -R /dev/input to see if keyboard is somewhere else, and make sure not to put the log in dev

part2 : getting keycount

echo $(( $(cat ~/keyboard1.txt | wc -c) / 96))

You should probably change the logger to only log relevant data, but this seems to work.

fukawi2 · 2009-01-01 06:26:13

Nice Procyon... I'll try and hack that in to something )

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