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From: Space Cake <spacecakex@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:19:42
Message-Id: 4E5E50C2.30900@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound by Albert Hopkins
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4 2010-08-17 21:34 keltezéssel, Albert Hopkins írta:
5 > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:43 +0200, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
6 >> Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com> [10-08-17 20:16]:
7 >>> On 08/17/2010 10:56 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote:
8 >>>> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20 +0200, meino.cramer@×××.de
9 >>>> wrote:
10 >>>>> Hi,
11 >>>>>
12 >>>>> on YouTube there was a Blender-2.5 tutorial with audio.
13 >>>>> There was an interesting detail: While there were spoken
14 >>>>> instructions one can hear one typing on its keyboard. Each
15 >>>>> hit on one of the keys made the sound of an old typewriter
16 >>>>> (no, it was not the sound of the legendary "IBM Model M"
17 >>>>> keyboard ;) ).
18 >>>>>
19 >>>>> How can I achieve this? What software can I use to make
20 >>>>> this geeky feature to come true. Unfortunately I have no
21 >>>>> idea, how to name this kind of what(?) ...
22 >>>>>
23 >>>>> Thank you very much for any hint in advance! Best regards,
24 >>>>> mcc
25 >>>>
26 >>>> There probably a number of ways to do this.
27 >>>>
28 >>>> A cheap and easy way would be to use xev to monitor a window
29 >>>> and then pipe the stderr to a a program that waits for a
30 >>>> keypress event and then plays an apropriate.
31 >>>>
32 >>>> A less cheap way would be to have our program do what xev
33 >>>> does instead of using a pipe.
34 >>>
35 >>> Or you could set your X keyclick using xset.
36 >>>
37 >>
38 >> Hi,
39 >>
40 >> thanks a lot for your replies! :) Is there any program already,
41 >> which does this? A daemon or...<insert missing words here>
42 >>
43 >> Best regards, mcc
44 >>
45 >>
46 >
47 > Well I found out that when you pass window id to xev it does not
48 > trap keyboard presses per-sé. But there is another way...
49 >
50 > Anway the following is a quick hack (in python). It pretty much
51 > works except it also seems to trap mouse presses. I got the .wav
52 > file at http://www.soundjay.com/typewriter-sounds.html
53 >
54 > I tried using 'xset c' but it basically does nothing for me. My
55 > guess is that it does work it basically sends the a BELL to the
56 > console.
57 >
58 >
59 > --- 8< CUT HERE
60 > --------------------------------------------------- import sys
61 > import subprocess
62 >
63 > soundfile = 'typewriter-key-1.wav'
64 >
65 > def main(): window_id = sys.argv[1] cmd = ['xev', '-id',
66 > window_id]
67 >
68 > p1 = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) while True: line
69 > = p1.stdout.readline() if line.find('atom 0x14d') > -1:
70 > subprocess.Popen(['aplay', soundfile], stderr=open('/dev/null',
71 > 'w'))
72 >
73 >
74 > if __name__ == '__main__': main()
75 >
76 >
77 >
78 Guys, this is awesome :) Let's make an ebuild and put in portage :)
79
80 L:
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[gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
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