Re: [orca-list] lightdm and the desktop don't speak early if pulseaudio is not started system wide.

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Upgraded to pulseaudio-11.1 to no avail.

Le 29/11/2017 à 12:35, Didier Spaier a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> In Slint64-14.2.1RC3.iso, puleeaudio is not started system wide,
> as espeak is built with portaudio as back end, and orca is enabled at
> the user level with a small script orca-on.
>
> We start espeakup during the startup sequence.
>
> When lightdm is used, after startup it doesn't say "screen reader on"
> and it seems to take a few seconds before it begins to speak, for
> instance if if quickly begin to type the password it doesn't say
> "bullet" when typing the first characters.
>
> However, after I close a session (going back to the greeter) it speaks
> normally.
>
> Also, at the beginning of a desktop session orca don't say "screen
> reader on" either, and there is a delay if 10 or 15 seconds before I get
> speech.
>
> However if I start pulseaudio system wide during the startup
> sequence (chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.pulseaudio) I have speech instantly in
> both lightdm and the desktop.
>
> Also, if I use another display manager like lxdm, I have of course no
> speech in it but I get speech in the desktop instantly regardless of the
> way pulseaudio is started (system wide or per user). This is also the
> case if I use startx to start a desktop from a console instead of using
> a display manager.
>
> We have lightdm-1.24.0, lightdm-gtk-greeter-2.0.3, orca-3.26.0,
> pulseaudio-9.0
>
> Did anyone observe a similar behavior?
>
> Should I file an issue in some bug tracker, and then which one?
>
> If one wants to test, the iso is here:
> http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-testing/iso/
>
> Greetings,
> Didier
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