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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:20:13 +0200
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound
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On 2011. aug. 31., szerda, 17.54.15 CEST, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 31 August 2011, 17:18:26 schrieb Space Cake:
>> 2010-08-17 21:34 keltez=C3=A9ssel, Albert Hopkins =C3=ADrta:
>>> 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-s=C3=A9. 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 =3D 'typewriter-key-1.wav'
>>>
>>> def main(): window_id =3D sys.argv[1] cmd =3D ['xev', '-id',
>>> window_id]
>>>
>>> p1 =3D subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=3Dsubprocess.PIPE) while True: li=
ne
>>> =3D p1.stdout.readline() if line.find('atom 0x14d') > -1:
>>> subprocess.Popen(['aplay', soundfile], stderr=3Dopen('/dev/null',
>>> 'w'))
>>>
>>>
>>> if __name__ =3D=3D '__main__': main()
>>
>> Guys, this is awesome :) Let's make an ebuild and put in portage :)
>>
>> L:
>=20
> why?=20
> man xset
>=20
> really guys. Why do it the long, hard and stupid way if there have bee=
n=20
> simple, built in solutions for longer than some of you live?
I can't achieve the same with xset :) but this solution is working very=20
well, this is a really important project showing the power of=20
opensource :)
L: