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From: Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Debian equivalent
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:47:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060321174726.GB6745@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060321133623.GA4444@hhs48.com>

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Actually, pidof isn't specific to debian, it's simply a symlink to
killall in most cases, which killall checks to see how it was
called. I notice though that debian's pidof is symlinked to killall5,
though there is no killall man page in chapter 5, and I'm not sure how
killall5 and killall differ, assuming that they do differ.

Just wondering though Chuck, what priority do you use for speechd-up?

Greg


On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 08:36:23AM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
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> One more thing about using a script such as mystartups (or rc.local) to 
> start your software speech.
> 
> Chances are that speech-dispatcher will already be running when this 
> script executes, since it has its own startup script in /etc/init.d with 
> a lower priority. But what I did in my script was to "renice -5" the 
> already running copy.  It turns out that Debian has a very handy  
> utility called "pidof" that returns the pid of a running program, so my 
> command to change the priority of speech-dispatcher looks like this:
> 
> renice -5 `pidof speech-dispatcher`
> 
> and you are in business. Whatever script you use to manage your speakup 
> speech output should be sure to run speechd-up with "nice 5" so that 
> speech-dispatcher will always run with a slightly higher priority than a 
> normal application, and speechd-up will always run with a slightly lower 
> priority. Negative numbers here mean higher priority, positive numbers 
> mean lower priority. I guess that is why they call it "nice-ness" The 
> nicer it is, the lower the priority. The nastier it is, the higher the 
> priority.
> 
> There is a speakwith script on my web site that you might like to take a 
> look at. It assumes speech-dispatcher has already been run, but does 
> everything else for you.
> 
> Chuck
> 
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Dan Murphy
 ` Levi Campbell
   ` Dan Murphy
 ` Gregory Nowak
   ` Dan Murphy
 ` Charles Hallenbeck
   ` Charles Hallenbeck
     ` Gregory Nowak [this message]
       ` Charles Hallenbeck
         ` Gregory Nowak
           ` Steve Holmes
     ` Dan Murphy
       ` Steve Holmes
         ` Gregory Nowak
   ` Dan Murphy
 ` John Heim
 ` Jim Wantz
 debian equivalent Jude DaShiell
 ` Charles Hallenbeck

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