Free presentation helper that shows keystrokes

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Are there any free standalone presentation tools that shows which keys are pressed on screen?

KeyCastr is not available as build for users without Xcode. Only a community fork (git://github.com/bignerdranch/keycastr.git) is working on OS X 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion).

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Related to the Windows 7 Question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3529329

Best Answer

OS X comes with such a tool.

To activate it, you should go in System Preferences --> Keyboard and select Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar, see screenshot below.

Then in the top menu bar, ext to the clock, you should have a new icon.

Click on it and select Show Keyboard Viewer, now each time you press a key, the Keyboard viewer will briefly display that key. You will have something similar to this:

I hope this was what you were looking for.

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