keeping espeakup from starting at boot

[John G Heim]

Yeah, I'd rather not run a command if there is a config file I can set 
it in. I have been somewhat remis in my duties as a linux systems admin 
in having not taken the time to really learn about systemd. But if it 
requires you to run a command to configure services, then it's broken.

I looked for info on configuring services in systemd. I found a nice 
blog post about why /etc/default/ files aren't really needed in systemd. 
But the advice it gives doesn't seem to apply to espeakup. It says to 
take the default config file which would be somewhere like /lib/systemd/ 
and copy it to /etc/systemd/ and edit it there. But there is no 
espeackup config file anywhere in the systemd directories. I suspect 
that espeakup is relying on the backwards compatibility features of 
systemd. As someone who has ignored systemd as long as possible myself, 
I can't fault the espeakup developers for that.


On 02/08/2016 05:24 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Easier way than that, locate where espeakup has speakup_soft defined 
> as synthesizer and edit that and replace speakup_soft with none.
>
> On Mon, 8 Feb 2016, Rob wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:04:49
>> From: Rob <captinlogic at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>>     <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>> To: jheim at math.wisc.edu,
>>     Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. 
>> <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>> Subject: Re: keeping espeakup from starting at boot
>>
>> John G Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On the machines used by the other people in my department, I need to 
>>> keep espeakup from starting at boot time. We run ubuntu 15.10 so I 
>>> think this is a systemd question.
>>
>> Wouldn't you just go systemctl disable espeakup?
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