Hello Dave, Dave Mielke <[email protected]> wrote on Sa, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:59:57 -0400: >[quoted lines by Sebastian Humenda on 2010/07/31 at 12:52 +0200] > >>speech-dispatcher 0.7 is supporting unix sockets. I think it's a neat thing to >>have, especially when you're using a single-user computer. I'm only wondering >>whether BRLTTY currently supports that. A brief look into the configuration >>says >>it's not. Am I wrong? If not, could it be added to BRLTTY? > >Brltty just uses the Speech Dispatcher client library. All the magic happens >within the sd code. If you're using a static executable then you'll need to >rebuild it against sd-0.7. > >I know that sd-0.7 contains a significant change in how it deals with sockets. >My understanding is that it's somehow user-specific. Since brltty runs as >root, >it may be, therefore, that you need a root sd running as well as your user >instance. Okay, that's nearly what I expected. So it makes more sense to use speech-dispatcher as a system service with a TCP socket. (I can't see any advantage in using a unix socket system wide).
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