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Hushboard

Hushboard is an utility that mutes your microphone while you’re typing.

Installation

They recommend using the Snap Store package but you can also install it manually as follows:

sudo apt install libgirepository1.0-dev libcairo2-dev
mkvirtualenv hushboard
git clone https://github.com/stuartlangridge/hushboard
cd hushboard
pip install pycairo PyGObject six xlib
pip install .
deactivate

Running the application

You can run it manually as follows

workon hushboard
python -m hushboard
deactivate

Or if you use i3wm, create the following script.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

source {WORKON_PATH}/hushboard/bin/activate
python -m hushboard
deactivate

You should replace {WORKON_PATH} with your virtual environments path. Then add this line to your i3wm configuration file to start it automatically.

exec --no-startup-id ~/scripts/hushboard.sh

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