On Tuesday 17 August 2010 20:34:05 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:43 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > > Bill Longman <[email protected]> [10-08-17 20:16]: > > > On 08/17/2010 10:56 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20 +0200, [email protected] 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()
xset b on or xset c on do not work here either. -- Regards, Mick
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