Re: [orca-list] Lightdm/getting Orca to speak

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hello Jace and Alex,

Three possible workarounds:

1) Set the audio back-end of speech-dispatcher to  alsa instead of pulse. Yeah I know, that's not the 
Debian/Ubuntu way ;)
2) Write in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf a line under "[Seat:*]" to kill pulseaudioat the end of a session.
Either:
session-cleanup-script=su -c "pulseaudio -k"  $USER
Or (more drastic...):
session-cleanup-script=killall pulseaudio
3) If allowed in Debian/Ubuntu, do not start pulseaudio when opening the session but only when a client 
requests it (like speech-dispatcher in your case), and stop it as soon as the all clients quit. To that aim 
set:
a) In client.conf:
autospawn = yes
b) In daemon.conf:
exit-idle-time = 0

Greetings,

Didier

Le 25/04/2018 à 17:06, Alex ARNAUD a écrit :
> Hello Jace,
>
> Yes, it's a known issue, it's related to PulseAudio. You could only launch only one PulseAudio daemon on 
> your sound card, when you log out of your desktop, the PulseAudio daemon stays active so you can't play 
> sound anywhere else.
>
> Best regards,
> Alex.
>
> Le 25/04/2018 à 16:37, Jace Kattalakis a écrit :
> > Hey list, I'm running the 18.04 beta2 before it releases tomorrow and I'e said in previous messages I can 
> > get Orca to run on the boot menu where I can try or install Ubuntu. That works fine.
> >
> >
> > My issue is this:
> >
> > I can auto log in fine, I can get Orca running at login. However if i log out of my session, I lose all 
> > speech and so forth. Is this a known issue?
> >
> > Is it due to me using a USB headset (though the Orca on boot menu came through my headset), or is it a 
> > known lightdm/Orca issue.
> >
> > If so, how do I fix it to have Orca working if I log out of a session? Right now I can log out, and no 
> > sound, nothing on either my speakers or my headset, and as far as I'm aware, opening a terminal does 
> > nothing, and alt+super+S does nothing as well. Can anyone confirm this by logging out of a Mate/lightdm 
> > using session and trying to bring up a terminal? More specifically, can anyone who is testing or using 
> > Mate 18.04 confirm this as I'm not sure if it's only me that has the issue.
> >
> > Jace
> >
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