What is the purpose of At-Spi?
Since upgrading to Lubuntu 12.10, I have two new services running:
at-spi-bus-launcher
at-spi2-registryd
What is the purpose of at-spi? Who needs it and can it be disabled safely?
Thanks.
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Have you read the man pages?
Pierre (pierrewinnipeg) said : | #2 |
Nothing at: man at-spi. I have not found a satisfactory answer on the Internet either.
N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : | #3 |
Hi ,
at-spi-bus-launcher
is a
bus launcher
AT-SPI uses its own D-Bus bus, in order to handle accessibility of administrative applications. There is a program called at-spi-bus-launcher to manage the lifecycle of this bus and provide a method for retrieving its address.
Source is here: http://
Another source here: http://
I hope your question been answered
Thanks
Pierre (pierrewinnipeg) said : | #4 |
This is very technical do me and to probably a lot of other people. What is a bus, what is D-bus? Etc. I would appreciate someone to elaborate on this.
The bottom line is what applications it would affect, only screen readers & magnifyers?
And, can I uninstall it safely. For example, on a Lubuntu standard install would it create problems if I uninstalled it?
N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : | #5 |
What is D-bus ?
http://
If you want any information about a package (in your Ubuntu) , is enough to now the name and then give this command
~$ apt-cache show <package-name>
For at-spi2 see
~$ apt-cache policy at-spi2-core
I don't now exactly if you will encounter any problems (probably no , because is an optional package referred to Gnome and you said you have Lubuntu) , maybe they have pre-installed this package for some Gnome-Applications compatibility. Perhaps you will encounter problems with some gnome-applications , not sure.
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