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That sounds great. Can you put it up on GitHub so I can use it please?

I mean sure, but I wasn't exaggerating when I said it is probably not usable on other peoples computers. It only works on linux, it doesn't work on wayland, and because I am using xinput to disable the keyboard, you will have to replace the device name in blockKeyboard.py: https://github.com/TT-392/keyAlarm/tree/master

It shouldn't be too difficult to write your own though, so, if anyone wants to do so, feel free to steal the idea.

Works on my machine. Thanks! (Xfce)

> I mean sure, but I wasn't exaggerating when I said it is probably not usable on other peoples computers.

That's totally okay! I love when people share their "works on my machine programs". Just say upfront that it's your personal tool so others won't expect production-grade software.

The code might inspire others, let others fork it (if a license says it's okay), teach code readers about some technique or tool, or just be fun to poke around.

I, for one, learned about pyxhook while reading your code. Thank you!

That is nice, as for a license, I think half of the program is someone else's keylogger code I found somewhere online, so putting my own license on there seems shitty. But I put a line in the README that anyone can steal the idea of the concept of the program, if someone is gonna do that, they are gonna want to rewrite everything anyways.

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