-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 2010-08-17 21:34 keltezéssel, Albert Hopkins írta: > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:43 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> Bill Longman <bill.long...@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.cra...@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 :)
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