TrackPoint Sound

Description

This project is a more serious implementation of a comic program for playing sound when touching a trackpoint.

Rust rewrite: device discovery via libudev, input events via evdev, playback via rodio (mp3, wav, ogg, flac, and more).

dependencies

Arch-based (x86_64)

• systemd-libs (libudev) — trackpoint discovery
• alsa-lib — audio output (rodio/cpal)
• build: rust, cargo, pkgconf, libudev

sudo pacman -S systemd-libs alsa-lib rust cargo pkgconf libudev

• Will be installed with the AUR package

Installation

• Arch(btw)-based

  yay -S trackpointsound

• manual (from source)

  git clone https://github.com/WindowsKonon1337/TrackPointSound.git
  cd TrackPointSound
  ./build.sh install          # PREFIX=/usr/local, copies audio to ~/.trackpointsound/
  # or system-wide:
  sudo ./build.sh install PREFIX=/usr

  Audio lookup order: ~/.trackpointsound/audio/ (if not empty), then /usr/share/trackpointsound/audio/.

  or:

  cargo install --path .
  mkdir -p ~/.trackpointsound && cp -r audio ~/.trackpointsound/

possible problems

1. No access to the trackpoint device — you need read access to /dev/input/event*:

   sudo chmod a+r /dev/input/eventN   # N = your trackpoint event number

   or add your user to the input group (re-login required).

   sudo usermod -aG input $USER

2. Empty audio folder — the program exits if ~/.trackpointsound/audio/ has no supported audio files.

3. Trackpoint not found — the device name must match TPPS/2.*TrackPoint (common on ThinkPads).

Configuration

configuration folder is located at ~/.trackpointsound

Put custom samples in ~/.trackpointsound/audio/ to override the package defaults from /usr/share/trackpointsound/audio/.