From: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: how to tell which synthesizer is active
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:29:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090913172919.GA15752@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090908194218.GA19578@romuald.net.eu.org>
Hi Greg,
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 12:42:18PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> How about a compromise? I propose leaving synth as is, and creating a
> new file, /sys/accessibility/speakup/synth_active, which would be a
> boolean. If the value is 1, the synth is active. If the value is 0,
> the synth has timed out/prtscr was pressed to turn the synth off. This
> way, synth can stay as is, and active could be checked in scripts, to
> decide what action could be taken. So, for example, if synth is set to
> bns, and active is set to 0, then you'd know that a hardware synth is
> in use, but that it isn't attached. How does that sound, and could it
> be implemented?
I can look into something like this. How about putting it in the synth
directory though, such as /sys/accessibility/speakup/bns/active?
William
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