From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OlRVh-0005Ru-61 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:07:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9D87E0BAC for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:07:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 21EFCE07D3 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:43:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Aug 2010 18:43:09 -0000 Received: from p54851790.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.23.144] by mail.gmx.net (mp008) with SMTP; 17 Aug 2010 20:43:09 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18kd+k4ANckO0OeZNN5L70r8Ob0haF4SzbNZyQvPj /r78dpAJal0+vx Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:43:10 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:43:09 +0200 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound Message-ID: <20100817184309.GA9068@solfire> References: <20100817172005.GA5110@solfire> <1282067763.451766.3.camel@paska> <4C6AD12F.4020007@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C6AD12F.4020007@gmail.com> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 5303375a-080c-4827-a3cd-2a77c68873fd X-Archives-Hash: e5a906b495da268dfbd1f3fbf9611b9b Bill Longman [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... Best regards, mcc