Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma teething problems - Part II

[Mick]

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