Re: [orca-list] Getting Environments to Orca

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Have you tried using the .profile or .bashrc files in the GDM home 
directory (normally /var/lib/gdm/)? I can't precisely remember which of 
these files is sourced when but I would have thought one of these would 
be the correct place to set environment variables.

I am a little surprised you can't configure this setting in 
speech-dispatcher's configuration files.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Steve Holmes wrote:
> I'm looking for the most proper way to get environment variables to
> pass through gdm to Orca so Orca can refer to them.  In greater detail
> what I'm trying to do is set up speech dispatcher to run in system
> wide service mode.  To do this, I have to set in the environment a
> SPEECH_ADDRESS and any of the clients wishing to use speech dispatcher
> would then use the contents of this environment variable to
> communicate with it.  So Orca needs this info to work in this mode.
> At present, if one starts gnome from a normal user session with the
> startx command, this all works fine because Orca seems to inherit the
> environment from that normal user.  However, if gdm does this, the
> info does not make it to Orca.
>
> With my recent studies of this, I find that the gdm startup script in
> /usr/sbin/gdm does inherit the environment and even pulls such
> settings from the /etc/profile.  But I have no idea what the
> gdm-binary is doing but when the Orca launch script in /usr/bin/orca
> gets going, that information is not present.  In a local hack on my
> machine, I inserted this variable assignment into the script and now
> Orca can work with speech dispatcher in system mode.  The advantage of
> system mode is you then only have a single instance of speech
> dispatcher running at any given time.
>
> Some distros use that dreaded pulse audio system which requires
> individual instances of speech dispatcher to run in each user session;
> in those cases, this system service approach would not be taken.
>
> What I'm asking is then what are the best steps to take to enable Orca
> to see this environment variable and of course, when not present, then
> launch speech dispatcher like it nows and it will autospawn itself.
>
> Any good ideas out there?
>
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