From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.145]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCA8DC1A367 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 05:01:04 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <98haom$7galqr@ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net> X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AigIAEu18Ux20Ogk/2dsb2JhbACDT5E4jTNNcrIKkG2DM3ME Received: from ppp118-208-232-36.lns20.hba2.internode.on.net (HELO localhost) ([118.208.232.36]) by ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net with SMTP; 28 Nov 2010 20:31:01 +1030 Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:01:00 +1000 From: pj@pjb.com.au To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailer: mail.pl Subject: Progress reports Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: pj@pjb.com.au, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:01:05 -0000 Greetings, Lots of important applications display rapidly-updating progress-report lines, which I find annoying when using speakup. For example, wget, or mplayer f.mp3, or aptitude safe-upgrade. Mostly I can't see a way to switch them off, except brute force: echo 7 > /sys/accessibility/speakup/silent mplayer f.mp3 echo 4 > /sys/accessibility/speakup/silent or: wget http://somewhere.com/index.html 2>/dev/null Does someone have a collection of appropriate aliasses or wrapper-scripts ? Or is there a standard environment variable like SPEAKUP_IN_USE that we could campaign to have applications respect ? Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au pj@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Was der Meister nicht kann, vermöcht es der Knabe, hätt er ihm immer gehorcht?" Siegfried to Mime, from Act 1 Scene 2