Re: [orca-list] lightdm not speaking if pulseaudio is started sydtem wide

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hello

Le 06/11/2017 à 07:01, Peter Vágner a écrit :
> I've added lightdm user into audio group that made sound working inside a
> greeter session on my slint install.

It worked here as well, indeed.

So that was actually a PEBCAK case! Thanks Peter.

> I think slint is one of the very few if not only one to run pulseaudio
> system wide.
> I don't know if we might be able to reliably kill the pulse audio on logout
> by using its init script to allow it to run in user mode though.

Maybe, but we would need to handle runlevel 3 as well as 4, in other
words using lightdm as well as using startx.

Or, we could try using alsa directly as other distributions do.
But I would need help to do that properly, as I am not acquainted
with the audio subsystems.

On the other hand I have asked on the brltty mailing list if there
was a high security risk in starting pulseaudio system wide, and
was answered "not very big", cf. these posts:
https://brltty.com/pipermail/brltty/2017-September/015255.html
https://brltty.com/pipermail/brltty/2017-September/015257.html

What do you think?

Greetings,

Didier

> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
> Dňa 6. 11. 2017 12:04 AM používateľ "Didier Spaier" <didier slint fr>
> napísal:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to include lightdm in upcoming Slint64-14.2.1.
> >
> > But if pulseaudio is started system wide, which I need to provide speech
> > both in text and graphical modes, lightdm doesn't speak. However, as I
> > checked running htop in tty2, orca is started by lightm-gtk-greeter,
> > with the same layout of processes as when pulseaudio is not started, in
> > which case lightdm speaks.
> >
> > The issue is only with lightdm, I have speech in the session it starts.
> >
> > I am probably missing the obvious and I assume that's a PEBCAK case, but
> > still I am out of idea, as an internet search about this specific issue
> > came empty.
> >
> > I am under the impression that it had spoken then ceased to speak but am
> > unable to find which change could ĥave caused this regression.
> >
> > So I'd be glad to any clue, thing to check or how to investigate.
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Didier
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