On 08/17/2010 02:44 PM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 17 August 2010 20:34:05 Albert Hopkins wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:43 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>> Bill Longman <bill.long...@gmail.com> [10-08-17 20:16]: >>>> On 08/17/2010 10:56 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: >>>>> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> on YouTube there was a Blender-2.5 tutorial with audio. >>>>>> There was an interesting detail: While there were spoken >>>>>> instructions one can hear one typing on its keyboard. >>>>>> Each hit on one of the keys made the sound of an old >>>>>> typewriter (no, it was not the sound of the legendary >>>>>> "IBM Model M" keyboard ;) ). >>>>>> >>>>>> How can I achieve this? >>>>>> What software can I use to make this geeky feature to >>>>>> come true. >>>>>> Unfortunately I have no idea, how to name this kind >>>>>> of what(?) ... >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you very much for any hint in advance! >>>>>> Best regards, >>>>>> mcc >>>>> >>>>> There probably a number of ways to do this. >>>>> >>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>>> A less cheap way would be to have our program do what xev does >>>>> instead of using a pipe. >>>> >>>> Or you could set your X keyclick using xset. >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> thanks a lot for your replies! :) >>> Is there any program already, which does this? >>> A daemon or...<insert missing words here> >>> >>> Best regards, >>> mcc >> >> Well I found out that when you pass window id to xev it does not trap >> keyboard presses per-sé. But there is another way... >> >> Anway the following is a quick hack (in python). It pretty much works >> except it also seems to trap mouse presses. I got the .wav file at >> http://www.soundjay.com/typewriter-sounds.html >> >> I tried using 'xset c' but it basically does nothing for me. My guess >> is that it does work it basically sends the a BELL to the console.
My thinking was that you could enable the system bell through the sound system (there's a kernel setting for it) and then just change the sound to whatever the typewriter sound is. Kinda cruddy, but it might be worth trying....
