I have also taken out pulseaudio and all I had to do was to add all the users to the audio group, set speech-dispatcher to use alsa and all the things I tried to use worked with sound. One can still assosiate the applications needed to open files using /etc/mailcap One can even have one application opening the file in console mode and another one opening the same file in graphics mode. This is done by adding a test line to the mailcap entry which test if the DISPLAY variable is set or not. HTH, Willem On Tue, 3 Dec 2013, Janina Sajka wrote: > > Rob Hudson writes: >> If you have gnome or a variant installed, my understanding is that >> you can't remove pulse audio without breaking stuff. > > > Perhaps, but I don't find it has gotten in my way at all. > > Maybe this is why I can't click on an audio stream in Firefox and have > it auto play, but this isn't how I want to use Firefox anyway. Instead, > I save the file on my hd and play it from one of my Speakup consoles > with mplayer. Frankly, I don't want FF playing music through the same > audio device I use for Orca. I understand there's configuration > somewhere in the gui for associating different types of audio streams > with different devices. I used to configure that. I don't bother > anymore. > > Also, I know I don't have the earcons available in Gnome. > > Orca itself works perfectly well, is very snappy, and just not a problem > in any way. > > So, I can't say I mind whatever it is I've broken. It's just not > tripping me up yet. > > Janina > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 > sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net > Email: janina at rednote.net > > Linux Foundation Fellow > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf > Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. > The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. > > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, > and is believed to be clean. > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > >
