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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:05:39
Message-Id: 1282067763.451766.3.camel@paska
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20 +0200, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > on YouTube there was a Blender-2.5 tutorial with audio.
5 > There was an interesting detail: While there were spoken
6 > instructions one can hear one typing on its keyboard.
7 > Each hit on one of the keys made the sound of an old
8 > typewriter (no, it was not the sound of the legendary
9 > "IBM Model M" keyboard ;) ).
10 >
11 > How can I achieve this?
12 > What software can I use to make this geeky feature to
13 > come true.
14 > Unfortunately I have no idea, how to name this kind
15 > of what(?) ...
16 >
17 > Thank you very much for any hint in advance!
18 > Best regards,
19 > mcc
20
21 There probably a number of ways to do this.
22
23 A cheap and easy way would be to use xev to monitor a window and then
24 pipe the stderr to a a program that waits for a keypress event and then
25 plays an apropriate.
26
27 A less cheap way would be to have our program do what xev does instead
28 of using a pipe.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>