This program will count the number of keypresses you make on your keyboard and mouse, on any X Window System environment, for example Linux.

The results, divided by hour, are stored in a commaseparated file, by default ~/.kbdcounter.csv. For hours where there's no activity, no line is added to the file.

It will also mute you microphones on the first registered keyboard click , then unmute after 0.75 seconds of keyboard inactivity. Very handy when attending Teams, Zoom, appear.in or other online meetings.

Install the python-xlib package via apt, yum, pip or whatever means necessary.

Run src/kbdcounter.py. After 5 minutes, verify that it's working by inspecting ~/.kbdcounter.csv.

The program should be started automatically when your desktop session is started.

Yes. I wrote it because I was curious on how many keystrokes I was making on a regular working day.

And no. After adding the mute functionality it is very useful during meetings.

The original author did a damn fine job making this program, silly or not.

• The program will not save the last 5 minutes of stats if it's killed. Killing it with Ctrl-C will however save state.