Re: best way to change speakup defaults in debian automatically when the system boots into console mode

["K0LNY ??" <glenn@ervin.email>]

I think this is what I was thinking of, not init.d
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Carmickle" <frank@carmickle.com>
To: "Samuel Thibault" <sthibault@debian.org>
Cc: "Nick Gawronski" <nick@nickgawronski.com>; "Debian Accessibility Team" 
<debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2024 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: best way to change speakup defaults in debian automatically 
when the system boots into console mode



> On Mar 21, 2024, at 11:51, Geoff Shang <geoff@QuiteLikely.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2024, Nick Gawronski wrote:
>
>> Hi, I was wondering what is the proper method as I can not locate any 
>> documentation on how to change things like rate and volume and pitch 
>> automatically when the system boots as there is no information in any of 
>> the manual pages and I do not always like manually echoing values to 
>> /sys/accessibility/speakup after the system is booted so what is the 
>> proper way to automatically set options for espeakup when the system is 
>> booted?
>
> I use speakupconf from the speakup-tools package.
>
> Admittedly, I've not automated the loading of settings, but it's no big 
> deal for me to type
>
> speakupconf load
>
> when I boot the system.
>
> I'm sure there's an easy enough way to automate this, I've just not 
> bothered to look into it.

Right now I just put the above line in rc.local and enable the rc.local 
systemd unit. It works fine for me, and I have other things in there also.

Samuel, would it be a good idea to add a check for the existence of 
speakupconf in the espeakup systemd unit, and if it exists, load the config?

--FC