Check the archives - message on Oct 11 2003 from Tim Orford, subject "wm key shortcuts for alsaplayer". I believe this is what you want? On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:33:39AM +0000, Joe Button wrote: > Hi. > > I know this isn't the kind of thing that generally gets discussed on this > list, but it does kind of relate to linux audio. > > I have an hour or so of taped conversation I need to type up. I was planning > to record it to my hard disk so I can do everything from the keyboard. > > What I'd like to be able to do is set up keyboard shortcuts for rewind / pause > etc that I can use without task-switching out of the wordprocessor. > > If I understand correctly one way of doing this would be to set up a global > keyboard shortcut that runs a program that sends a jack_transport message to > the audio app. If I had lots of time or a bit more experience I might be > inclined to set something like that up for the sake of my education, but I > suspect it would end up taking considerably longer than the typing itself! Is > there a simpler solution I'm missing? > > If anyone has any ideas for an efficient audio-typing system I can use on > Mandrake 9.2 please let me know. > > Thanks. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's BONOBO PENIS SPAZ! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)