Speech dispatcher on and typing lag

Desktop Environments i3wm
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Since the last few days I am having 2 problems when using the i3 on EOS.

  1. The machine is telling me non-stop that the speech dispatcher is working.
    2.Typing suffers from lag. I type things and it takes time before it appears on the screen.

Any advice with both issues?

2

you have installed some impared vision tool?

- espeak-ng
- mousetweaks
- orca

I bet orca?

https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/speech-dispatcher/

3

hi, thanks.
yes I have orca on my system. I am not sure when it was installed. I don’t have a need for it.
How do I get rid of it ?
Thanks
ps
why is the problem only with the i3? when using gnome there are no issues.

4

Gnome is a full DE handling this.

if you do not need it simply uninstall it…
yay -Rc orca speech-dispatcher

5

Thank you @joekamprad
I removed the orca.
Also I lost the ability to open terminal with $mod + enter

Also the welcome menu offering tht offers updating of the system is not working now.

6

what have you done ? remove xfce4 terminal?

yay -Qs xfce4

cat ~/.config/i3/config | grep xfce4-terminal

should show this:

➜  ~ » cat ~/.config/i3/config |  grep xfce4-terminal
bindsym $mod+Return exec xfce4-terminal
7

I don’t think I’ve done anything in particular.
But what actualy happens is that i get a black screen and when right click with the mouse it gives two options system setting
Budggie Desktop setting
System setting
This black screen can be quitted with $mod+q
I just wonder why is it happening and what needs to be uninstalled to stop it??

8

you posted here in i3 section but this is Budgie Desktop?
You have both installed and somehow it starts the budgie Desktop inside your i3 session.

/etc/xdg/autostart/

has budgie entries that will get started with i3 if you have dex running…

readme give the info already to uninstall dex if you use i3 install aside with a Desktop…

9

Hi, @joekamprad
It sounds very strange I know, but it just all happened suddenly without me doing any particular thing(at least not consciously…)
So yeah the Budgie desktop thing was a surprise to me as well.
Thank you for your help and patienc.
Cheers

10

so… you have or have not installed budgie ?

I saw some users installing everything from the ISO so they have all Desktops installed at the same instance… and indeed also orca and spüeech-dispatcher as there is an option to install them on the ISO too…

11

Just for clarification - yes I actually use the i3

That’s the strange thing

The last few days this thing with the speech dispatcher started when logging in and the black screen - it just happened. I never had a problem with it before. So I don’t know what changed.

I’ll read again the README.

I appreciate your help.