How to make our keyboard sound old in Gnu / Linux

Those of us who are over 15 years old, we fondly remember old computer accessories. The old ball mouse or the robust pc keyboard that resisted any blow but also made a lot of noise when used. Currently, neither mice have a ball to function nor keyboards are that loud. But we can make them generate noise, without breaking them.

There is an application that can run on any Gnu / Linux distribution and what makes the computer emit a sound for each key we press, as if it were an old keyboard. This application is free and does not involve high resource costs, so it is useful both for computers with few resources and for those with many resources.

The old computer keyboard made a lot of noise but it worked for a long time

This program that is responsible for emitting sounds is called bucklespring and is developed by programmer Zevv. This developer has enabled a Github repository in order to download the application code. But if we have a distribution that supports snap packages, we can install the application as follows:

snap install bucklespring

And once we have the program installed, we just have to run it as follows:

bucklespring.buckle

If our distribution does not support snap packages, then we have to download the code and install it as follows:

sudo apt-get install libopenal-dev libalure-dev libxtst-dev

make

./buckle

And as with the snap package, we have to execute the bucklespring.buckle command so that sounds are emitted with each key we press. Normally we usually customize our distribution with a new icon, a special desktop background or by changing the desktop. But sounds are also part of a good customization and many of us forget it. This program may not make us special, but it will remind us of how old computer keyboards worked.