Re: [orca-list] Partially Solved: Fedora 22 Blues

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Hi, Luke:

Just to be clear ...

My practical problem is that Orca doesn't come up speaking if I have
used speech-dispatcher during gdm login.

In order to get Orca working with speech-dispatcher, I need to kill the
speech-dispatcher process.

Surely, that's not correct behavior?

Janina

Luke Yelavich writes:
> On Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 12:44:13PM AEST, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > However, to try and figure out what was happening, I put
> > speech-dispatcher on its own audio device. That was enlightening. gdm is
> > not releasing speech-dispatcher following login, so orca doesn't come up
> > talking until I go to a cli somewhere and do a "killall
> > speech-dispatcher." I will find out whether it's just something funky on
> > this particular machine, because it's a bug otherwise.
>
> Speech Dispatcher not shutting down when Orca is shut down in a gdm session is a known issue. Orca doesn't 
> specifically kill Speech Dispatcher, which is correct behavior, but Speech Dispatcher doesn't have any 
> knowledge of sessions etc, and stays running even if there are no clients connected.
>
> It should be noted however, that even though one is not using gdm all the time, its session according to 
> loginctl is still running in the background.
>
> I have plans to add functionality such that Speech Dispatcher automatically shuts down after a period of 
> time when no clients are connected, however that requires some refactoring of Speech Dispatcher's main 
> processing code, so it will be a while before this is released.
>
> Luke
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