Making Speakup Optional

[Steve Holmes]

Yes, that's a big help - Thanks.  One other question, loadkeys -k loads
the "default keymap? Which default? What I mean is I thought the speakup
patches modify the keyboard; wouldn't this "patched" keyboard now be the
acting default? How does one get the original unpatched one instead? I
wonder if I need to save out the keymap before applying speakup.

I could be missing a big point here so would be glad if someone needs to
point out the "error of my ways":).

Thanks again for the idea about /proc/speakup/synth - good one!

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Adam Myrow wrote:

> I have written a simple script to select a keymap based on whether Speakup
> is running or not before.  What I did is to grep "none"
> /proc/speakup/synth.  If it contains "none" I would execute "loadkeys -k."
> This loads the default keymap.  I don't have this script handy, but I
> recall that it went something like:
>
> grep "none" /proc/speakup/synth >/dev/null 2>&1
> if [ $? -eq 0 ] then
>     loadkeys -k
> fi
>
> I put this at the bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.local on the machine in question.
> Hope this helps.
>
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