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 went through this a few years ago. I had some large programs installed that I didn't use, Kmail and others. I wanted to clean them out but at the time I had installed KDE with kde-meta. Basically, that installs everything KDE, wanted or not. I uninstalled that and went these instead: root@fireball / # equery list *kde*meta* * Searching for *kde*meta* ... [IP-] [ ] kde-apps/kdeadmin-meta-19.04.2:5 [IP-] [ ] kde-apps/kdebase-meta-19.04.2:5 [IP-] [ ] kde-apps/kdecore-meta-19.04.2:5 [IP-] [ ] kde-apps/kdegames-meta-19.04.2:5 [IP-] [ ] kde-apps/kdegraphics-meta-19.04.2:5 [IP-] [ ] kde-apps/kdemultimedia-meta-19.04.2:5 root@fireball / # Of course, there was still things I wanted to remove because I didn't use them. Of course there was things I wanted that I had to install manually as well. I got rid of some things with USE flags and others I just had to live with. Still, I slimmed it down a lot. If I put in more effort, I could slim it down more I suspect but it's close enough. This is one of the things I like about Gentoo, being able to cut off or get rid of things I don't want. USE flags help with that a lot. Glad you got it sorted out. Dale :-) :-)
