xkeylogger

Rootless keylogger for X.

Features

• No root access required.

• Keep track of the focused window and print its name too.

• Translate raw keystrokes according to the current keyboard layout.

• Allow to generate a statically linked executable.

• Also log some useful non-printable keystrokes (backspace, tab, etc.).

• Use the modifiers to write the proper glyph.

Dependencies

apt-get install libxi-dev

Build

To build a dynamically linked executable:

make

To build a statically linked executable:

make static

Usage

Dump keystrokes to a file (exit by killing the process):

xkeylogger > key.log

Sample output

[+] 06/09/2012 @ 16:44:17 : urxvt
cd /tm⇥⏎
ls⏎
mkdit⌫r test⏎

[+] 06/09/2012 @ 16:44:56 : cyrus-and/xkeylogger - Google Chrome
foo⏎

[+] 06/09/2012 @ 16:45:06 : Search · foo - Google Chrome
⌫⌫⌫bar←⌫⌦az⏎

[+] 06/09/2012 @ 16:45:28 : Search · baz - Google Chrome
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[+] 06/09/2012 @ 16:45:33 : Google - Google Chrome
xkeylogger⏎