[PD] how do i interact with pd without gui?

[Tim Blechmann]

> Hallo,
> Tim Blechmann hat gesagt: // Tim Blechmann wrote:
> 
> > > but you can use some keys of the ascii keyboard for "play",
> > > "stop","rec", etc, and print messages in the shell if you need to
> > > (simply with the [print] object)
> > that was my first thought, but if you press a key on the console,
> > it's not grabbed by pd ... i actually don't know why, but it's
> > possible, that pd's keyboard access is through the gui ...
> 
> If you're on Linux you can use Hans' linuxevent objects which read
> globally.
do i? i only have my mouse listed in /dev/input, but not the keyboard...

cheers...

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