Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

[Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com>]

On 08/17/2010 02:44 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 August 2010 20:34:05 Albert Hopkins wrote:
>> 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.

My thinking was that you could enable the system bell through the sound
system (there's a kernel setting for it) and then just change the sound
to whatever the typewriter sound is. Kinda cruddy, but it might be worth
trying....