Universal Blue•5mo ago

Screen Reader Starts Automatically After Every Login

How do I prevent the screen reader from starting on login ? It does it every time and I have not been able to stop it. Once I log in, I can go to Settings -> Accessibility -> Seeing -> Screen Reader. Despite it clearly and obviously working, the Screen Reader menu option shows it as disabled. To get it to turn off for my session, I have to toggle it on and then back off again. However, logging out and back in again will have it enabled and talking to me once more. I do not remember ever turning this feature on. I checked the Startup Applications inside Tweaks and it only has Sunshine and uBlue First Boot Setup (which also keeps coming back no matter how many times I remove it).

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Unfixable GNOME bug

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Kyle Gospo•5mo ago

Using Sunshine on GNOME?

Kibner•5mo ago

Yes, that is correct.

Solution

Kyle Gospo•5mo ago

Unfixable GNOME bug

Kyle Gospo•5mo ago

At least by us You can switch to KDE or stop using Sunshine

Kibner•5mo ago

... oh welp. rip me. lol thanks for letting me know i'm not going crazy!

Kyle Gospo•5mo ago

No problem!

Kibner•5mo ago

fyi, i found the open issue for this in Sunshine's github: https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/issues/1303

GitHub

Running sunshine activates accessibility screen reader on some Linu...

Is there an existing issue for this? I have searched the existing issues Is your issue described in the documentation? I have read the documentation Is your issue present in the nightly release? Th...

Kibner•5mo ago

seems to be the way that systemd(?) is running sunshine people are able to get it to work just fine if they start sunshine directly via the terminal with sunshine

HikariKnight•5mo ago

at that point it will not work in gamescope-session. and i believe we rather have that working. if the modified service file works for gnome instead, then that is an easier "workaround"

[Unit]
Description=Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.
StartLimitIntervalSec=500
StartLimitBurst=5

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sunshine
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

[Install]
WantedBy=xdg-desktop-autostart.target

[Unit]
Description=Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.
StartLimitIntervalSec=500
StartLimitBurst=5

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sunshine
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

[Install]
WantedBy=xdg-desktop-autostart.target

someone else also just turned on and off the screenreader and it stopped

Kibner•5mo ago

yeah, i did this, too. but it turned itself back on everytime sunshine launches. and since i had sunshine launch on login so that i would be able to remote in after restarts, the screen reader always turned itself back on. in any case, i switched to KDE and it doesn't happen anymore. KDE also has a bit better HDR support, so it is better for me, anyway.

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Screen Reader Starts Automatically After Every Login