Re: Using festival in Orca

Carles Pina i Estany, le lun. 05 janv. 2026 06:34:46 +0100, a ecrit:
> Question: would be better (or possible?) to have "festival --server"
> running as a "festival" user, for all users? (with socket activation). I

It is possible, yes, but this probably poses security questions to share
a common instance.

> I think that the problem could already be solved if we created (via
> systemd) a UNIX domain socket (file socket).

Yes, it could create it in the xdg user directory.

> Would that work and have any advantage?

It is probably a good long-term way to go, so it can both be
auto-started and be per-user.

Ideally, this would be discussed with upstream, but upstream doesn't
seem to be very alive :/ In the meanwhile, we can carry patches in
Debian.

Samuel