-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 One more thing about using a script such as mystartups (or rc.local) to start your software speech. Chances are that speech-dispatcher will already be running when this script executes, since it has its own startup script in /etc/init.d with a lower priority. But what I did in my script was to "renice -5" the already running copy. It turns out that Debian has a very handy utility called "pidof" that returns the pid of a running program, so my command to change the priority of speech-dispatcher looks like this: renice -5 `pidof speech-dispatcher` and you are in business. Whatever script you use to manage your speakup speech output should be sure to run speechd-up with "nice 5" so that speech-dispatcher will always run with a slightly higher priority than a normal application, and speechd-up will always run with a slightly lower priority. Negative numbers here mean higher priority, positive numbers mean lower priority. I guess that is why they call it "nice-ness" The nicer it is, the lower the priority. The nastier it is, the higher the priority. There is a speakwith script on my web site that you might like to take a look at. It assumes speech-dispatcher has already been run, but does everything else for you. Chuck - -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (63% of Full) Get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh and remember, INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEIAFXXnuiIOyDVQURAkQSAJ9+i9QVpvZumEl74CmsZmnky0VQzwCgtnjX pNXKT+x5JbZJDY5LVIJHEF4= =5LZ3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
