[gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-08-31, Space Cake <spacecakex@×××××.com> wrote:

>>>>> A cheap and easy way would be to use xev to monitor a window and then
>>>>> pipe the stderr to a a program that waits for a keypress event and
>>>>> then plays an apropriate.

Thats how I did it in Python:

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#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import subprocess

soundfile = 'typewriter-key-1.wav'

def main():
    window_id = sys.argv[1]
    cmd = ['xev', '-id', window_id]

    p1 = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    while True:
        line = p1.stdout.readline()
        if line.find('KeyPress event') > -1:
            subprocess.Popen(['aplay', soundfile],stderr=open('/dev/null','w'))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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I don't remember where I got the typewriter-key-1.wav file from.

It's amusing for about 30 seconds.... ;)
    
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