The chimed daemon is an equivalent of a wind chime in a Linux system. It
provides a way for other programs to create various sounds with simple
interfaces - interrupt signals, UDP or TCP packets, UNIX sockets.
The chimed installation requires libasound2 development files, needed to
build the simpleaudio Python module.
sudo apt install libasound2-dev
You can install chimed from source in editable mode, if you want to work on it:
git clone https://github.com/drybjed/chimed ~/src/github.com/drybjed/chimed
pipx install --editable ~/src/github.com/drybjed/chimed
You can also install chimed from PyPI:
pipx install chimed
After installation, run the daemon in a terminal window:
chimed serve
You can send commands to it using a FIFO file:
# Play a bell sound
echo "chime" >> $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/chimed/fifo
The default installation includes a set of chimes and a corresponding
configuration for vim editor. You can check the lib/vim/vimrc file in the
repository to see an example configuration you need to include in your
~/.vimrc configuration to integrate with chimed. There's also an example
systemd unit file available, to run chimed as an user daemon.
The internal configuration can be viewed using:
chimed config get
You can put YAML, TOML and JSON files in the ~/.config/chimed/conf.d/
directory to add or modify configuration options. Currently there's not much
configuration to be done, a lot of things need to be implemented, so stay
tuned.
Copyright (C) 2022-2024 Maciej Delmanowski drybjed@gmail.com
This software includes sounds from freesound.org:
-
"richcraft chime 4" by richcraftstudios, licensed under CCBY 3.0.
-
"Typewriter ding_near_mono" by _stubb, licensed under CC0.
-
"Beep 03 Single" by PaulMorek, licensed under CC0.
-
"Beep 04 Positive" by PaulMorek, licensed under CC0.
-
"Click 02 Double" by PaulMorek, licensed under CC0.
-
"Click 02 Single" by PaulMorek, licensed under CC0.
-
"Swish 01" by PaulMorek, licensed under CC0.