Re: [orca-list] Programatically detecting if Orca is running

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hello,

#!/bin/sh
if [ "$(ps -C orca --no-headers)" != "" ]; then echo "Orca is running!"; fi

That a user has indicated somewhere that she would like to have Orca active doesn't imply that it is or even 
can be.

Plenty or reasons can make this assumption wrong.

Further, there are plenty of ways to give this indication, and any test would most probably miss some of them.

Cheers,
Didier

Le 12/04/2020 à 22:09, Nolan Darilek a écrit :
> Hey folks,
>
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> I'm working on a game engine accessibility project that is essentially a screen reader running inside the 
> engine. I'd like to enable my screen reader if I've detected that another is running. I know how to do this 
> under Windows via Tolk, Android via accessibility APIs, but I'm not sure how to do this for Orca. Is there 
> any way to detect whether Orca is running, or even better, if the user has indicated to GNOME/KDE that 
> they'd like the screen reader active?
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> If there isn't an easy way, I'll probably just check for the presence of the various magical environment 
> variables we've almost certainly got set to get things running, but I'd like to avoid that if possible.
>
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> And yes, I know I can technically check running processes, but that's hacky and I'd rather not. :)
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> Thanks.
>
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