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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Friday, Mar 26, 2004, at 06:58 America/New_York, Tim Blechmann wrote:

>> 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...
>
>

[linuxevent] supports any device that the Linux event system does.  The 
Linux event mostly supports USB devices, so AFAIK PS/2 mice don't work, 
for example.  So maybe only USB keyboards work with this, but I'd like 
to be wrong about this.

You might need to load a kernel module like evdev, or usbkeyb or 
something like that.

.hc