fenrir setup?

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I got no question when running fenrir-conf about which key to bind to the 
fenrir key.  I'll do some more reading and figure what to put in the 
desktop.conf file to get that working.  On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Linux for 
blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 16:38:31
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: fenrir setup?
> 
> Howdy,
>
>> insert-h to get help up and that doesn't work.  super-h doesn't work and
>> even kp(insert)-h doesn't work.  (keypad)8 plays a couple different
>> sounds depending on number of times it is pressed it appears to toggle
>> those sounds.
>
> I cannot see this. You can bind whatever key you want as fenrir key. It sound more like an wrong setup i bet to an old python-evdev  version.
>
>> It's just that fenrir introduces keyboard latency.
> This is fixed fore some weeks now since i bring fenrir to an event based and multiprocess  structure.
>
> What surprised me
>> though is I have speech-dispatcher installed on this system and fenrir
>> did not use that synthesizer as its default even though
>
> Fenrir does use speech-dispacher  as default but did not use the defaults of speech-dispacher. It has its own settings to tell speech-dispacher  what TTS needs to be used. But when running  pulse and speech-dispacher  it needs some special setup to configure speech-dispacher  for root (as what fenrir is running )pulse to forewart the sound to the user.
>
> Cheers Chrys
>
> Hm speechd-el, sure i dont stop someone to use a software that got about 10 commits in seven years or try to create a good new maintained one. Sure it has bugs but without knowledge  of them i cannot fix it. Or we come to the conclusion we dont need another screenreader  and i will better spent my sparetime at the bar ;).
>
>
> Am Freitag 4. August 2017 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion:
>> I have used fenrir git version for a little while and have tried
>> insert-h to get help up and that doesn't work.  super-h doesn't work and
>> even kp(insert)-h doesn't work.  (keypad)8 plays a couple different
>> sounds depending on number of times it is pressed it appears to toggle
>> those sounds.
>> Originally I was thinking speakup and fenrir were fighting until
>> checking contents of /etc/fenrir/settings/ out but that's not the case.
>> It's just that fenrir introduces keyboard latency.  What surprised me
>> though is I have speech-dispatcher installed on this system and fenrir
>> did not use that synthesizer as its default even though
>> speech-dispatcher got installed before fenrir.  Speech-dispatcher speaks
>> nicely when first started but as keys are typed speech quality degrades
>> fast to the point where many parts of many words do not get spoken.  But
>> then all of this could be because speech-dispatcher needs configuring.
>> I downloaded voices for speech-dispatcher and unpacked them and need to
>> read some more of what I can find on the web pages to get a default
>> speech-dispatcher voice selected.  I want to do that since that probably
>> helps me get speechd-el working inside emacs too.
>>
>> On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 12:31:35
>>> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
>>> Subject: fenrir setup?
>>>
>>> Can speakup be turned off once fenrir starts?  I got the fenrir-git aur
>>> package installed and apparently running on this system a little earlier
>>> today.
>>>
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