On Sunday, January 2, 2022 5:58:44 PM EST Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote on 02/01/2022 at 23:53:19+0100: > > Greetings All; > > > > Without any conscious prompting by me, te debian 11.1 netinstall for > > x86-64 systems installed and setup whatever was needed to bring the > > screen reader to life. > > > > Any thing related to a braile function that I try to remove wants to > > kill > > another 2 or 3 gigs of system with it. > > > > Quite distracting to a sighted user when that robotic voice, speaking a > > very broken bandwidth of what might be english, blaring out of ones > > speakers 20 db louder than firefoxes audio can I am sure, find a way to > > silence this w/o destroying the rest of the system. Removing orca will > > shut it up, but that leaves brltty spamming the daemon.log complaining > > about a missing library every 5 seconds. And that's close to 40 > > megabytes a week. > > > > So, how does one shut up this useless to me, screen-reader and kill the > > log spamming at the same time? > > > > I think its great that folks have gone to that effort for the sightless, > > but why is that sort of stuff always made mandatory. > > > > I'd sure appreciate any help cleaning it out > > > > Thanks everybody. > > Removing brltty will only lead to the removal of its reverse > dependencies and so on. This stops at: > > * brltty-espeak > * brltty-flite > * brltty-speechd > * brltty-x11 > > None of which you need. > That wasn't the end of the dependencies. There were 4 more I removed and had to kill 2 of them in memory with htop once they were removed, but the log is finally silent.
Thank you. Both for the help, and for learning my language so well. > Theoretically, removing brltty and orca takes little with it. The first time I tried to remove brltty, the removal cascaded all the way up thru all of gnome and xorg. Scary. > I don't have brltty installed on neither my bullseye nor my unstable > installs. > > Regards, Cheers, Pierre-Elliott Bécue, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
