I guess first I need to understand why you want it in system-wide mode. Having it ru as user has benefits. In particular, you can bind a command like "sh -c 'killall speech-dispatcher; orca --replace'" to a key like Shift+Ctrl+O, to restart both speech-dispatcher and Orca when needed. In theory two different blind users could have different speech-dispatcher configurations, but I never heard of two blind users sharing a machine.
I run speech-dispatcher both in system-wide mode, and in user mode. I turn on speech-dispatcher in system-wide mode so that I can run speechd-up and get speakup working with speech-dispatcher. I prefer this mode for it's stability. Speech-dispatcher still crashes now and then (about every other day for me), in user-space, so it's nice to have a speakup specific version running that is rock-solid. For some reason, the speakup copy of speech-dispatcher just doesn't seem to crash, but I use Orca far more than speakup. To get two copies of speech-dispatcher running and playing nicely together, you need to run PulseAudio in system-wide mode. In the future, hopefully, this will be fixed, but for now, I recommend all users who need speakup run it this way. Here's how I run PulseAudio in system-wide mode in Karmic and Lucid: Edit /etc/defaults/pulseaudio, and change: PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=0 to PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=1 Then, edit /etc/pulse/client.conf, and add the line autospawn = no After the line that says '#autospawn = yes'. Then, delete the file /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop. Finally, you have to disable group-based authentication to use the sound system. This is not ideal, but it works, and I don't know any way to get the installer to automatically add users to the pulse-access group. Edit /etc/pulse/system.pa. Find the line that reads: load-module module-native-protocol-unix and change it to read: load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1 Bill On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:49 AM, mk360 <re...@tutopia.com> wrote: > Hi, > > First of all, really many thanks to luke for the work on spd and ubuntu > lucid, finally its working good, probably at the level of spd with alsa. > > Now a question... can I configure spd to start in system mode? usually I > set yes on /etc/default/speech-dispatcher, but under karmic I had many > problems with this losing all sound, so I prefer to ask, becouse my lucid is > working really good... > > Regards, and again, congratulations. > mk. > > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility