Intro
Regularly doing online meetings and letting everyone listen in on your family drama because you forgot to mute the call is almost a rite of passage for remote workers. Sadly too few devices come with a hardware microphone mute button. So let’s hack together a software push-to-talk for Linux!
You are going to need these:
- xbindkeys
- xset
- setxkbmap
- pulseaudio or pipewire
- an X11 desktop environment
- a keyboard key to sacrifice
