Key Activity On-Screen display

Project kaos delivers a kernel module and X11 application written in Qt 4/5. Together they allow tracking keys and buttons pressed by the user in input devices, especially keyboard and mouse. Key activity is shown using simple and opaque OSD in the top-right corner of the screen.

At the same time it is a jprobe applicability/usefulness proof-of-concept.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! NO WARRANTY!

Requirements

• Linux kernel (>= 2.6.26) with following features enabled:
  • Debug Filesystem - CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
  • Generic input layer - CONFIG_INPUT
  • Kprobes - CONFIG_KPROBES
  • Kernel->user space relay support - CONFIG_RELAY
• Qt 4 or 5

Usage

Build kernel module and application:

make

Mount debugfs if it is not already mounted:

sudo mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug

Load module:

sudo make load

Start application:

make start [DEBUGFS_DIR=/path/to/debugfs]

Providing DEBUGFS_DIR is required only if it is not /sys/kernel/debug.

If debugfs directory permissions allow access only for super user, then prepend above command with sudo.

Bugs

If you find any bug, then please create new issue in GitHub and describe it there.