tdsr
Linux for blind general discussion
blinux-list at redhat.com
Tue Oct 4 13:46:38 UTC 2022
Tim here. It's a little tricky because, without additional
precautions, you open a shell which launches tdsr, which opens a
shell inside of it, which launches tdsr, which opens a shell
which...you get the idea.
So there needs to be a way for a shell to determine if it's already
inside a running session of tdsr. This sort of thing is usually
done through setting an environment variable. For example, I've
done similarly with "tmux", so I have a check in my startup file
(e.g. my ~/.bashrc) that tests
[ -z "$TMUX" ] && tmux
So first you'd want to see if tdsr sets an environment variable.
The documentation might detail this, but if not, you can dump the
environment to a file before running tdsr, then run tdsr, then dump
the environment to another file and compare them, like
$ env | sort > a
$ tdsr
(tdsr)$ env | sort > b
(tdsr)$ comm -13 a b
Hopefully this will show a setting something like a "$TDSR" variable
that you can check. Then your ~/.bashrc (or whatever your startup
file is) can end with something like
[ -z "$TDSR" ] && tdsr
Because this can go unfortunately sideways, I recommend having one
window/console open, editing your ~/.bashrc and then open a *new*
window (or log in at another console) to test it. If all goes
right, yay. If things go sideways, you can quickly flip back to
the first window/console, remove that line from your ~/.bashrc, and
(re)save it. This saves you a LOT of hassle if you accidentally
create a loop like described at the top of this email.
-Tim
On 2022-10-04 08:21, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> I have fedora 35, and while in the shell I use tdsr for screen-reader.
> To start it, one must use dot slash tdsr.
> Is there a way to have this program start whenever logging in at shell?
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