On Monday, 24 June 2019 16:22:01 BST Mick wrote: > On Monday, 24 June 2019 12:44:34 BST Dale wrote: > > Mick wrote: > > > I often find a number of speech-dispatcher processes running: > > > 4732 ? SLl 0:00 /usr/lib64/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_dummy > > > /etc/> > > > > > > speech-dispatcher/modules/dummy.conf > > > > > > 4734 ? SLl 0:00 > > > /usr/lib64/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_generic > > > / > > > > > > etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/generic.conf > > > > > > 4736 ? SLl 0:00 > > > /usr/lib64/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_cicero > > > / > > > > > > etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/cicero.conf > > > > > > 4737 ? Z 0:00 \_ [sd_cicero] <defunct> > > > 4739 ? SLl 0:00 > > > /usr/lib64/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_espeak > > > / > > > > > > etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak.conf > > > > > > 4744 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/bin/speech-dispatcher --spawn > > > --communication-> > > > > > > method unix_socket --socket-path > > > /run/user/1000/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock > > > > > > I don't know what is starting these processes or what they have to offer > > > to my desktop. Checking systemsettings5/Accessibility Options/Screen > > > Reader, I can see it is NOT enabled. > > > > > > How can I get rid of these? > > > > I would start out by finding out what package /usr/bin/speech-dispatcher > > belongs too. Equery can help with that but other tools can as well. > > Once you find that, then check the USE flags to see what can be adjusted > > to get rid if that. I don't have it here so I can't do it on my system. > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > Good call Dale, here's what I found: > > app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher is required by dev-qt/qtspeech, > > which is required by kde-apps/kdepim-runtime and kde-apps/kpimtextedit, > neither of which have a USE flag to stop speech-dispatcher kicking off. > > However, speech-dispatcher has USE="espeak" enabled, which I will try to > disable and see what happens thereafter.
I also found this beauty in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, which I uncommented: # The DisableAutoSpawn option will disable the autospawn mechanism. # Thus the server will not start automatically on requests from the clients DisableAutoSpawn -- Regards, Mick
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