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From: Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:03:20
Message-Id: 4C6AD12F.4020007@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound by Albert Hopkins
1 On 08/17/2010 10:56 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20 +0200, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> on YouTube there was a Blender-2.5 tutorial with audio.
6 >> There was an interesting detail: While there were spoken
7 >> instructions one can hear one typing on its keyboard.
8 >> Each hit on one of the keys made the sound of an old
9 >> typewriter (no, it was not the sound of the legendary
10 >> "IBM Model M" keyboard ;) ).
11 >>
12 >> How can I achieve this?
13 >> What software can I use to make this geeky feature to
14 >> come true.
15 >> Unfortunately I have no idea, how to name this kind
16 >> of what(?) ...
17 >>
18 >> Thank you very much for any hint in advance!
19 >> Best regards,
20 >> mcc
21 >
22 > There probably a number of ways to do this.
23 >
24 > A cheap and easy way would be to use xev to monitor a window and then
25 > pipe the stderr to a a program that waits for a keypress event and then
26 > plays an apropriate.
27 >
28 > A less cheap way would be to have our program do what xev does instead
29 > of using a pipe.
30
31 Or you could set your X keyclick using xset.

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