On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 03:44:20PM +0000, Lisi wrote: > I am after something from never-never land, but I live in hopes. > > I need a sound recorder, and would prefer that it be in Debian Lenny, but a > dual-boot would be possible. It must fulfil the following criteria: > > 1) Be managed by someone who knows a little bit about Linux, less about > Debian > and absolutely zilch about sound recording and balancing etc. > > 2) Ideally, usable by someone who knows even less about computers and sound > recording, but can use this package without too active a helping hand. > When I really need to dumb things down for users, I often make my own bash script to do it. Maybe something like this would work for you:
#!/bin/bash echo "About to start recording. Hit Ctrl-C to stop." arecord myfile.wav echo "Recording saved as myfile.wav -- be sure to rename it to something meaningful." You can create a launcher/shortcut to run it in a terminal, or you can pretty it up with zenity, xdialog, or KDE's equivalent. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110106003705.gc4...@aurora.owens.net
