Cool Linux tool...

[elfs]

Obviously, I'm enjoying gaming on my Linux box a whole lot these days, and one of the problems every gamer has with his set-up is that every game's sound effects are recorded at a different level. To combat this problem, I did two things: I install a "multimedia keyboard" (Microsoft brand-- they make decent hardware, as long as it's not DRM'd) and installed LinEAK, the Linux Easy Access Keyboard server. This nifty little utility allows you to use the keyboard's "extra" buttons across the top row as readily as you would under Windows-- and without the performance hit Windows imposes.

Even better, XMMS, the X Multimedia System for Unix, which is the premier MP3/OGG/AAC/FLAC/SPEEX/etc. player for those of us not living with Bill or Steve, has an interface for LinEAK that allows you to do all the usual things you expect to be able to do: start, stop, pause, next, and previous.

But it's mostly just nice in the middle of a game to be able to press Volume-Up and actually have it work.

Comments

[woggie.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll look for it when I get Linux up and running on its own box. :)

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Cool. Now I don't feel so bad about having to buy M----s--- hardware (apparently Logitech isn't marketing Naturals under their own brand except as $100 wireless units anymore... or at least not where I could see'em).

(Besides, when you've spilled water in your keyboard, you need a new keyboard *now*.... *sigh*)

[tehrasha.livejournal.com]

To think I've been suffering with HotKeys for this long... must try this when I get home!