I think I've been hanging onto a "secret" and it's long overdue time to tell people about it. Maybe I did, but I don't think so.
Way back when I started using Linux - so somewhere in the mid '90s - I was frustrated by not knowing the state of the caps lock key. That inspired me to write a tool named locktones. It uses tones to announce the states of the caps lock, scroll lock, and num lock keys. It can run in the foreground or in the background. A different tone can be defined for each lock. There are two modes: In "active" mode the tone for a lock stays on while the lock is active. If more than one lock is ative then all the relevant tones are played cyclically. In "toggle" mode an ascending sequence of tones is played (once) when a lock is activated, and a descending sequence of tones is played (once) when a lock is deactivated. I recently added this tool to github. For anyone who'd like to experiment with it, it's at: http://github.com/brltty/locktones If you do give it a try, please, as always, let me know what problems you encounter with it as well as how it could be improved. -- I believe the Bible to be the very Word of God: http://Mielke.cc/bible/ Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | WebHome: http://Mielke.cc/ EMail: [email protected] | Ottawa, Ontario | Twitter: @Dave_Mielke Phone: +1 613 726 0014 | Canada K2A 1H7 | _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
