'Twas brillig, and Jason Taylor at 31/07/09 00:26 did gyre and gimble: > Just in case you havn't seen it > > "Impulse is a bit of eye-candy for your desktop. It is a widget that > displays a graphical spectrum analyzer on your gnome desktop. It is > written in c and python and uses GTK and cairo graphics to generate > the animation. the impulse library creates a pulse audio connection > context that reads the output stream from pulseaudio in a thread > natively which can then be read from python. You can specify impulse > to either output the raw stream or output the fft of the raw stream." > http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Impulse+-+PulseAudio+visualizer?content=99383 Nice one Jason :) It looks really smart - I'm always looking for more eye candy to waste those spare processor cycles :) I'll take it for a spin/package it in mandriva over the weekend. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]