Comment 2 for bug 1159855

Hey Adam,

Can you try if fix from the linked branch above (lp:~mk-fraggod/screenkey/screenkey) works for you?

As you have compositing wm, it should work, but there's also an option for non-compositing wm's, which would require a bit more work (drawing text shapes on cairo surface and then using it as shape mask with "w.shape_combine_mask()"), but since X works fairly well with compositing these days, not sure if it's worth the trouble.