running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode

[Trevor Saunders]

Hi,

Have you sanity checked that the orca configuration for gdm is set up to
use speechd by default?

Trev

On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 02:17:16AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Not using inet_sockets? well, that's another area to try.  I was under
> the impression that you had to use internet sockets instead.  that
> could make things easier if I don't have to try and get this
> environment variable passed to gdm.
> 
> To answer your other question, no, I didn't insert that export line in
> the gdm script itself.  The script runs /etc/profile which sets some
> basic system wide environment variables and then runs all .sh files in
> /et/profile.d.  I stuck another file in /etc/profile.d called
> speechd.sh.  That setup works beautifully when I login as any user and
> run spd-say for a test or do startx to run Orca.  It's just gdm does
> not seem to be able to launch a connection to speechd.  I don't get
> any errors but I don't think it's getting the communication method.
> Not sure what else to look at.  When speechd was autospawning in
> session mode, gdm ran it OK.  But then I ran into alsa device getting
> locked out and that's why I'm going after this system-wide approach
> again.
> 
> On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 10:51:22AM +0200, Halim Sahin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 12:47:43AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > I just tried from a cold boot and inserted the proper environment
> > > variable into a profile that gets read by all programs that startup on
> > > my Arch Linux system.  This gets inherited nicely by normal users at
> > > login and again, startx works fine but gdm for some reason does not
> > > inherit this variable when it runs.  I think gdm is the user but it
> > > must run something else that does not inherit these environment
> > > variables.
> > 
> > Have you tried exporting the speechd_address in your gdm start skript?
> > 
> > Gdm under gentoo is not that version which can be used for creating
> > accessible login afaik.
> > So I can't test it.
> > BTW.: On my machine I use now unix_socket for sd.
> > Sd  starts through an init-skript and works with sbl and orca :-) :-)
> > :-).
> > 
> > BR.
> > Halim
> > 
> > 
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