Bill Cox wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Lennart Poettering > <lennart at poettering.net> wrote: >> We actually cover that inside of gdm, where you can get access to the >> boot messages. >> >> Lennart > > Speakup doesn't stop reading when the user logs into Gnome. When we > type Ctrl+Alt+F1, we get a console screen which is read by speakup. > It reads the login prompt, and then all the console text after login, > whether as a normal user, or as root. It runs in parallel with Gnome, > and never exits until shutdown. Most blind Linux users I know love > this behaviour, and will not consider Linux distros that don't support > it. I was just thinking, and this idea is perhaps not 100% thought through, but it could be worth considering. We have this hand-over mechanism: http://git.0pointer.de/?p=reserve.git;a=blob_plain;f=reserve.txt It looks nice, except for that it lives on the session D-bus. Now assume we move (or copy) it to the system D-bus instead. Then we implement the handover request in speakup, timidity, and other programs not running inside the session context. This seems like a working middle-way between using the user's PulseAudio (which seems difficult, especially when it changes) and the path of uninstalling PulseAudio completely. I'm not a qualified plumber, so I could possibly be missing something obvious here. What do you think? // David
