Sounds great to me -- as long as I could do something to test in a bash script. William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 12:42:18PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > How about a compromise? I propose leaving synth as is, and creating a > > new file, /sys/accessibility/speakup/synth_active, which would be a > > boolean. If the value is 1, the synth is active. If the value is 0, > > the synth has timed out/prtscr was pressed to turn the synth off. This > > way, synth can stay as is, and active could be checked in scripts, to > > decide what action could be taken. So, for example, if synth is set to > > bns, and active is set to 0, then you'd know that a hardware synth is > > in use, but that it isn't attached. How does that sound, and could it > > be implemented? > > I can look into something like this. How about putting it in the synth > directory though, such as /sys/accessibility/speakup/bns/active? > > William > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
