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. -- Regards, Mick
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