The OS is Pop!OS 20.04, a close derivative of Ubuntu (but I was told to post the question here). I don't think my question is pop or ubuntu specific.
I have masked these two services, and rebooted. Yet, they still show as enabled.
tim@indigo:~$ systemctl list-unit-files | grep speech speech-dispatcher.service masked enabled
speech-dispatcherd.service masked enabled
tim@indigo:~$
But despite that, the service is running with systemd as its parent, although it is running under my user. That is, the parent process (pid 2376) is
/lib/systemd/systemd --user
Is there a user-specific way of masking services?
Because systemd is the parent, I assume that it is starting as a service. How can something by masked and enabled (after a reboot)?
I don't know what is starting it. I don't want to remove the package which installed the service since it has some dependencies I don't want to remove. I think systemctl should let me stop this, but so far I obviously haven't worked that out.
ps -aef | grep speech
tim 16850 2376 0 Aug31 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_dummy /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/dummy.conf
tim 16853 2376 0 Aug31 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_espeak-ng /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-ng.conf
tim 16859 2376 0 Aug31 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_generic /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/mary-generic.conf
tim 16862 2376 0 Aug31 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/speech-dispatcher --spawn --communication-method unix_socket --socket-path /run/user/1000/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock
Update: Firefox is starting it.
├─gnome-launched-firefox.desktop-16219.scope
│ ├─16219 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -new-window
│ ├─16286 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -parentBuildID 20200829200810 -prefsLen 1 -prefMapSize 236679 -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 16219 true socket
│ ├─16516 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 2 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 1416 -prefMapSize 236679 -noScache -parentBuildID 20200829200810 -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 16219 true tab
│ ├─16526 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 3 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 1416 -prefMapSize 236679 -noScache -parentBuildID 20200829200810 -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 16219 true tab
│ ├─16585 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 4 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 1600 -prefMapSize 236679 -parentBuildID 20200829200810 -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 16219 true tab
│ ├─16646 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 5 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 7644 -prefMapSize 236679 -parentBuildID 20200829200810 -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 16219 true tab
│ ├─16708 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 6 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 7779 -prefMapSize 236679 -noScache -parentBuildID 20200829200810 -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 16219 true tab
│ ├─16751 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/chrome-gnome-shell /usr/lib/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/org.gnome.chrome_gnome_shell.json [email protected]
│ ├─16850 /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_dummy /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/dummy.conf
│ ├─16853 /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_espeak-ng /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-ng.conf
│ ├─16859 /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_generic /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/mary-generic.conf
│ ├─16862 /usr/bin/speech-dispatcher --spawn --communication-method unix_socket --socket-path /run/user/1000/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock
Update 2: I think this only looks like systemd. I will try this Firefox config setting:
reader.parse-on-load.enabled false
media.webspeech.synth.enabled false
tip from:
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7n5vn6/linux_firefox_and_speechdispatcher_are_making/
