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From: Space Cake <spacecakex@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:18:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E5E50C2.30900@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282073645.451766.13.camel@paska>

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2010-08-17 21:34 keltezéssel, Albert Hopkins írta:
> 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()
> 
> 
> 
Guys, this is awesome :) Let's make an ebuild and put in portage :)

L:

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-31 15:19 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
2010-08-17 21:44         ` Mick
2010-08-17 23:11           ` Bill Longman
2011-08-31 15:18         ` Space Cake [this message]
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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