Re: tdsr

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Or might it be easier to install espeakup, or install Fenrir?
I welcome anyone's ideas.

> On Oct 4, 2022, at 15:31, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Maybe better to keep logging in, go to cd tdsr,
> then type
> ./tdsr
> cd ..
> as I already do.
> What you had written is far too advanced for me, but thank you.
> 
>> On Oct 4, 2022, at 08:46, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Tim here.  It's a little tricky because, without additional
>> precautions, you open a shell which launches tdsr, which opens a
>> shell inside of it, which launches tdsr, which opens a shell
>> which...you get the idea.
>> 
>> So there needs to be a way for a shell to determine if it's already
>> inside a running session of tdsr.  This sort of thing is usually
>> done through setting an environment variable.  For example, I've
>> done similarly with "tmux", so I have a check in my startup file
>> (e.g. my ~/.bashrc) that tests
>> 
>> [ -z "$TMUX" ] && tmux
>> 
>> So first you'd want to see if tdsr sets an environment variable.
>> The documentation might detail this, but if not, you can dump the
>> environment to a file before running tdsr, then run tdsr, then dump
>> the environment to another file and compare them, like
>> 
>> $ env | sort > a
>> $ tdsr
>> (tdsr)$ env | sort > b
>> (tdsr)$ comm -13 a b
>> 
>> Hopefully this will show a setting something like a "$TDSR" variable
>> that you can check.  Then your ~/.bashrc (or whatever your startup
>> file is) can end with something like
>> 
>> [ -z "$TDSR" ] && tdsr
>> 
>> Because this can go unfortunately sideways, I recommend having one
>> window/console open, editing your ~/.bashrc and then open a *new*
>> window (or log in at another console) to test it.  If all goes
>> right, yay.  If things go sideways, you can quickly flip back to
>> the first window/console, remove that line from your ~/.bashrc, and
>> (re)save it.  This saves you a LOT of hassle if you accidentally
>> create a loop like described at the top of this email.
>> 
>> -Tim
>> 
>> On 2022-10-04 08:21, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>> I have fedora 35, and while in the shell I use tdsr for screen-reader.
>>> To start it, one must use dot slash tdsr.
>>> Is there a way to have this program start whenever logging in at shell?
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