📣 amichail

Why don't keyboards have a “show this key on the screen" feature?

Wouldn't this be better than looking down at the keyboard to see whether your finger is on the right key?
Instead, you could have a "show" key that you would press in combination with another key to show the latter key on the screen.
Such a feature would be particularly useful for non-standard keys such as media playback controls.

👤 mmphosis Accepted Answer ✓

xev

I pressed and released the F12 key on my keyboard:

  KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4600001,
      root 0x25e, subw 0x0, time 32145541, (2160,238), root:(2611,1142),
      state 0x10, keycode 96 (keysym 0xffc9, F12), same_screen YES,
      XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
      XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
      XFilterEvent returns: False
  
  KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4600001,
      root 0x25e, subw 0x0, time 32145717, (2160,238), root:(2611,1142),
      state 0x10, keycode 96 (keysym 0xffc9, F12), same_screen YES,
      XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
      XFilterEvent returns: False