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On 2011. aug. 31., szerda, 17.54.15 CEST, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> Am Mittwoch 31 August 2011, 17:18:26 schrieb Space Cake: |
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>> 2010-08-17 21:34 keltezéssel, Albert Hopkins írta: |
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>>> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:43 +0200, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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>>>> Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com> [10-08-17 20:16]: |
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>>>>> On 08/17/2010 10:56 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20 +0200, meino.cramer@×××.de |
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>>>>>> wrote: |
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>>>>>>> Hi, |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> on YouTube there was a Blender-2.5 tutorial with audio. |
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>>>>>>> There was an interesting detail: While there were spoken |
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>>>>>>> instructions one can hear one typing on its keyboard. Each |
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>>>>>>> hit on one of the keys made the sound of an old typewriter |
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>>>>>>> (no, it was not the sound of the legendary "IBM Model M" |
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>>>>>>> keyboard ;) ). |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> How can I achieve this? What software can I use to make |
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>>>>>>> this geeky feature to come true. Unfortunately I have no |
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>>>>>>> idea, how to name this kind of what(?) ... |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> Thank you very much for any hint in advance! Best regards, |
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>>>>>>> mcc |
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>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> There probably a number of ways to do this. |
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>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> A cheap and easy way would be to use xev to monitor a window |
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>>>>>> and then pipe the stderr to a a program that waits for a |
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>>>>>> keypress event and then plays an apropriate. |
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>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> A less cheap way would be to have our program do what xev |
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>>>>>> does instead of using a pipe. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> Or you could set your X keyclick using xset. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Hi, |
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>>>> |
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>>>> thanks a lot for your replies! :) Is there any program already, |
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>>>> which does this? A daemon or...<insert missing words here> |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Best regards, mcc |
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>>> |
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>>> Well I found out that when you pass window id to xev it does not |
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>>> trap keyboard presses per-sé. But there is another way... |
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>>> |
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>>> Anway the following is a quick hack (in python). It pretty much |
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>>> works except it also seems to trap mouse presses. I got the .wav |
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>>> file at http://www.soundjay.com/typewriter-sounds.html |
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>>> |
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>>> I tried using 'xset c' but it basically does nothing for me. My |
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>>> guess is that it does work it basically sends the a BELL to the |
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>>> console. |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> --- 8< CUT HERE |
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>>> --------------------------------------------------- import sys |
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>>> import subprocess |
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>>> |
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>>> soundfile = 'typewriter-key-1.wav' |
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>>> |
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>>> def main(): window_id = sys.argv[1] cmd = ['xev', '-id', |
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>>> window_id] |
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>>> |
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>>> p1 = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) while True: line |
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>>> = p1.stdout.readline() if line.find('atom 0x14d') > -1: |
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>>> subprocess.Popen(['aplay', soundfile], stderr=open('/dev/null', |
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>>> 'w')) |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> if __name__ == '__main__': main() |
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>> Guys, this is awesome :) Let's make an ebuild and put in portage :) |
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>> |
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>> L: |
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> why? |
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> man xset |
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> really guys. Why do it the long, hard and stupid way if there have been |
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> simple, built in solutions for longer than some of you live? |
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I can't achieve the same with xset :) but this solution is working very |
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well, this is a really important project showing the power of |
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opensource :) |
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