From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:34:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282073645.451766.13.camel@paska> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100817184309.GA9068@solfire>
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:43 +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com> [10-08-17 20:16]:
> > On 08/17/2010 10:56 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20 +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> on YouTube there was a Blender-2.5 tutorial with audio.
> > >> There was an interesting detail: While there were spoken
> > >> instructions one can hear one typing on its keyboard.
> > >> Each hit on one of the keys made the sound of an old
> > >> typewriter (no, it was not the sound of the legendary
> > >> "IBM Model M" keyboard ;) ).
> > >>
> > >> How can I achieve this?
> > >> What software can I use to make this geeky feature to
> > >> come true.
> > >> Unfortunately I have no idea, how to name this kind
> > >> of what(?) ...
> > >>
> > >> Thank you very much for any hint in advance!
> > >> Best regards,
> > >> mcc
> > >
> > > There probably a number of ways to do this.
> > >
> > > A cheap and easy way would be to use xev to monitor a window and then
> > > pipe the stderr to a a program that waits for a keypress event and then
> > > plays an apropriate.
> > >
> > > A less cheap way would be to have our program do what xev does instead
> > > of using a pipe.
> >
> > Or you could set your X keyclick using xset.
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks a lot for your replies! :)
> Is there any program already, which does this?
> A daemon or...<insert missing words here>
>
> Best regards,
> mcc
>
>
Well I found out that when you pass window id to xev it does not trap
keyboard presses per-sé. But there is another way...
Anway the following is a quick hack (in python). It pretty much works
except it also seems to trap mouse presses. I got the .wav file at
http://www.soundjay.com/typewriter-sounds.html
I tried using 'xset c' but it basically does nothing for me. My guess
is that it does work it basically sends the a BELL to the console.
--- 8< CUT HERE ---------------------------------------------------
import sys
import subprocess
soundfile = 'typewriter-key-1.wav'
def main():
window_id = sys.argv[1]
cmd = ['xev', '-id', window_id]
p1 = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
while True:
line = p1.stdout.readline()
if line.find('atom 0x14d') > -1:
subprocess.Popen(['aplay', soundfile],
stderr=open('/dev/null',
'w'))
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-17 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-17 17:20 [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound meino.cramer
2010-08-17 17:56 ` Albert Hopkins
2010-08-17 18:13 ` Bill Longman
2010-08-17 18:43 ` meino.cramer
2010-08-17 19:34 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2010-08-17 21:44 ` Mick
2010-08-17 23:11 ` Bill Longman
2011-08-31 15:18 ` Space Cake
2011-08-31 15:41 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-08-31 15:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-08-31 16:20 ` Space Cake
2011-08-31 16:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-08-31 16:49 ` Paul Hartman
2011-08-31 17:46 ` Grant Edwards
2011-08-31 18:50 ` Paul Hartman
2011-08-31 20:18 ` Grant Edwards
2011-08-31 21:58 ` Paul Hartman
2011-09-01 0:57 ` Grant Edwards
2011-09-01 2:43 ` Paul Hartman
2011-09-01 13:53 ` Grant Edwards
2011-09-01 14:22 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2011-09-01 18:58 ` Mick
2011-09-01 16:36 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-09-01 19:11 ` Grant Edwards
2011-09-04 12:55 ` Alex Schuster
2010-08-17 22:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2010-08-17 22:47 ` meino.cramer
2010-08-18 3:42 ` Paul Hartman
2010-08-18 3:53 ` Dale
2010-08-18 13:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2010-08-18 15:56 ` [gentoo-user] " meino.cramer
2010-08-17 23:17 ` Albert Hopkins
2010-08-17 23:41 ` Albert Hopkins
2010-08-17 23:44 ` Albert Hopkins
2010-08-18 14:14 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2010-08-18 15:10 ` Peter Ruskin
2010-08-18 16:46 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2010-08-18 16:20 ` meino.cramer
2010-08-18 16:43 ` Albert Hopkins
2010-08-18 16:06 ` meino.cramer
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