Hi Chris. Many thanks for your very prompt reply and for the link to the Espeakup Systemd service file from the Arch Linux distribution. I had been reading about Arch Linux and Espeakup before contacting this list and had even considered borrowing their Espeakup service file, as you suggest. I wasn't sure if that was sensible, however, so thought I'd ask an expert. I'll certainly test the Service file with Gentoo over the weekend and let the Gentoo Accessibility mailing list know whether it works or not.
Thanks once again for your help. John On 31/10/2013, Chris Brannon <[email protected]> wrote: > John Robinson <[email protected]> writes: > >> anyone on this list have experience of running Espeakup under Systemd? >> If so, I'd be very grateful to hear how you did it. > > There's no .service file included with the espeakup source distribution, > and there isn't one in the auxiliary files directory for the package. > I do have experience running espeakup under systemd on Arch, and your > best bet is probably to grab the .service file from their package. I'll > even make it easy for you with a link: > https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/plain/trunk/espeakup.service?h=packages/espeakup > You can put that in /etc/systemd/system, for now. > I haven't tested this on Gentoo and don't plan to do so, but it should > work just fine. You're the guinea pig *grin*. > If it works for you, I'm sure someone will probably be happy to commit it. > > -- Chris > >
