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@primeos Was this closed because wshowkeys seems unmaintained?

Kinda. It should still be maintained (especially if you send Drew a patch) but there isn't any active development anymore. However, while it's probably feature complete it doesn't really seem that usable/polished yet. And without a tagged release (which I was hoping for after a few more patches) it doesn't really make much sense to merge this into Nixpkgs.

But it seems like e.g. Fedora packages it already: https://repology.org/project/wshowkeys/versions

I think this package is relevant to the wayland community and should be reopened.

Yeah, I'm not aware of any alternatives and it can clearly be useful. But a tagged release would be helpful, though not required.
I'll reopen this PR for now but it's probably a good idea to quickly ask Drew first if it's ok to package this already.

I propose adding myself to the list of maintainers if you wish.

That would be helpful as I didn't really need it myself so far.

I'll reopen this PR for now but it's probably a good idea to quickly ask Drew first if it's ok to package this already.

Ok, I finally asked Drew via IRC and he's fine with it :)
So this is now ready for a final review and merging (if there aren't any objections).

Result of nixpkgs-review pr 83687 1