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

[Mick]

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