NAME¶

buckle-libinput - Nostalgia bucklespring keyboard sound, libinput flavour

SYNOPSIS¶

buckle-libinput [options]

DESCRIPTION¶

Buckle emulates the sound of an old IBM Model-M space saver bucklespring keyboard while typing.

It runs as a background process and plays back the sound of each key pressed and released on the keyboard, just as if using an IBM Model-M. The sound of each key has carefully been sampled, and is played back while simulating the proper distance and direction for a realistic 3D sound palette of pure nostalgic bliss.

This flavour reads key events straight from the raw input devices in /dev/input through libinput, rather than from X11, so that it also works under a Wayland compositor and on the console. Those devices are not readable for ordinary users out of the box, and running it as root is no answer, as it then no longer reaches the sound daemon of the user session; see /usr/share/doc/bucklespring-libinput/README.Debian for the ways to grant the access, and for what each of them costs you.

The X11 flavour is buckle-x11(1). Both flavours are alternatives for /usr/games/buckle, managed by update-alternatives(1).

OPTIONS¶

-d DEVICE use OpenAL audio device DEVICE

-f

use a fallback sound for unknown keys

-g GAIN

set playback gain [0..100]

-m CODE

set use CODE as mute key (default 0x46 for scroll lock)

-h

show help

-l

list available openAL audio devices

-p PATH

load .wav files from directory PATH

-s WIDTH

set stereo width [0..100]

-v

increase verbosity / debugging

SEE ALSO¶

buckle-libinput.service(8), buckle-x11(1), update-alternatives(1)

COPYRIGHT¶

Bucklespring was written by Ico Doornekamp and is published under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.

This manual page was written by Dominik George for the Debian project.