Caution

this app is no longer maintained. use IMS (input monitoring system) it shows both the keyboard and mouse.

mouse-sun

this is the image when you click the left button.

The mouse monitoring software for linux

this is a software to show the mouse clicks on screen. it is useful when making a tutorial video so that learners know what you pressed.

how to install

first download the tar file from the releases note: download the mouse-sun.tar not the source code(the source code is for building from source)

then extract the tar file with this command:

tar -xf mouse-sun.tar

then move inside the new folder

cd mouse-sun*

then install the dependancies

dependancies:

• SDL2
• SDL2_image

installing dependancies on void linux:

sudo xbps-install SDL2 SDL2_image

installing dependancies on debian-based linux:

sudo apt install libsdl2 libsdl2-image

then to run it:

./mouse-sun

building from source

dependancies:

• SDL2-devel
• SDL2_image-devel
• gcc (only for compilation)
• make (only for compilation)

for void linux:

sudo xbps-install SDL2-devel SDL2_image-devel make gcc

for debian-based linux:

sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev make gcc

after installing the dependancies, download the repository and cd into it and run this command to build from source:

make install

if you want to remove the package run:

make clean

to run it:

./mouse-sun

common issues:

• if it does not show effect when you click that means you should change the input file by using -i flag. this is becouse the input file for your mouse file might be differant so check the event file in your /dev/input/eventX' where X might be any number. for example if you want to check /dev/input/event2then runcat /dev/input/event2` then move the mouse if there is an output it means that this is the mouse input file else try another file.
• if when you use cat /dev/input/event0 you get authentication failed or something like that. then you have two options. first: run the program as root (not recommended) second: add yourself to the input group

other project:

key_sun a keyboard monitoring software