On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:39:35PM AEST, Mika Hanhijärvi wrote:
> I am using the Gnome desktop.
> I have espeakup and Orca installed. I would like to use espeakup on console and
> Orca on desktop. I also would like to be able to switch between text mode
> console and graphical nome desktop without logging out from the desktop.
ESpeakup is running as root, and everything is running as a user. I think the
easiest solution here is to configure Pulse to run system-wide. I know there
is an option in one of the Pulse configuration files to enable this, but I
don't think Debian ships a startup script or systemd service file to use
PulseAudio in system mode. Happy to be corrected.
Hi,
I've been able to reproduce this bug. A not-very-helpful workaround is
to restart espeakup whenever sound goes missing.
I've dug into the issue a bit and found it discussed on
pulseaudio-discuss back in 2010. The discussion on the thread seems to
indicate that espeakup and pulseaudio couldn't coexist at the time due
to espeakup not being multi-seat aware. Lennart summarised what needs to
be done to get them working together[0].
I'm not sure what the situation is now. Looking briefly at espeakup
upstream [1], it doesn't seem to be very active, so maybe the situation is
the same?
[0]
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/20 10-January/006033.html
[1] https://github.com/williamh/espeakup