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On 08/17/2010 02:44 PM, Mick wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 17 August 2010 20:34:05 Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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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 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. |
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>>>>>> Each hit on one of the keys made the sound of an old |
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>>>>>> typewriter (no, it was not the sound of the legendary |
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>>>>>> "IBM Model M" keyboard ;) ). |
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>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> How can I achieve this? |
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>>>>>> What software can I use to make this geeky feature to |
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>>>>>> come true. |
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>>>>>> Unfortunately I have no idea, how to name this kind |
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>>>>>> of what(?) ... |
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>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> Thank you very much for any hint in advance! |
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>>>>>> 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 and then |
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>>>>> pipe the stderr to a a program that waits for a keypress event and |
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>>>>> 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 does |
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>>>>> 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! :) |
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>>> Is there any program already, which does this? |
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>>> A daemon or...<insert missing words here> |
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>>> |
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>>> Best regards, |
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>>> mcc |
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>> |
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>> Well I found out that when you pass window id to xev it does not trap |
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>> 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 works |
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>> except it also seems to trap mouse presses. I got the .wav file at |
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>> 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 guess |
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>> is that it does work it basically sends the a BELL to the console. |
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My thinking was that you could enable the system bell through the sound |
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system (there's a kernel setting for it) and then just change the sound |
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to whatever the typewriter sound is. Kinda cruddy, but it might be worth |
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trying.... |
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