bambam - a keyboard mashing and doodling game for babies and
toddlers
- -u,
--uppercase
- Show UPPER-CASE letters.
- -d,
--deterministic-sounds
- Produce same sounds on same key presses.
- -D, --dark
- Use a dark background instead of a light one.
- -m, --mute
- Do not play any sounds.
- --sound_blacklist=GLOB
- List of sound filename patterns to never play.
- --image_blacklist=GLOB
- List of image filename patterns to never show.
- --wayland-ok
- Do not prevent running under Wayland. See the NOTES section.
bambam is a keyboard and mouse game for babies written in Python.
Pressing letter keys prints them in random locations and colours. Pressing
any other key draws little pictures in random locations. Dragging the mouse
while the mouse button is pressed draws in randomly changing colours. The
screen is cleared at random.
To quit, directly type the command mentioned in the upper
left-hand corner of the window. In the English locales, this is the word:
quit.
Be aware that there are ways to switch to another
application from bambam:
- when running under Wayland, it is not currently possible for bambam to
grab all key presses. A consequence of that is that if you use GNOME
Shell, pressing the Windows (a.k.a. Super) key will activate the
activities overview. Please check your environment. As a workaround,
starting with version 1.1.2, bambam will try to detect if it is running
under Wayland. If this is the case, bambam will display a warning and
refuse to work. You can disable this workaround, with the
--wayland-ok option.
- bambam does not block virtual terminal switching (e.g. CTRL+ALT+F1). See
the example 50-dont-vt-switch.conf file if you would like to block
that.
- there may be other yet unknown ways in other environments and window
managers.
For the above reasons, starting with version 1.2.0, it is
possible and recommended to run bambam in a dedicated login session.
- One way to do this is to select BamBam session type from your display
manager settings when logging in (look for a gear icon).
- Another way is use command such as exec startx bambam from a text
console.
To turn the sound off and on, type mute and unmute, respectively,
in the game.
bambam loads images (GIF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF files) and sounds
(WAV and OGG files) from the following directories:
- the data directory distributed with the game,
- $XDG_DATA_HOME (usually ~/.local/share/bambam/data)
When scanning directories for files, bambam does follow
symbolic links and descend directories. This makes is easy to have bambam
use files located elsewhere.
Spike Burch <spikeb@gmail.com> Marcin Owsiany
<marcin@owsiany.pl>