Emacspeak support for StumpWM

Describes my Linux X-Windowing setup using lightdm to initialize the desktop and StumpWM configured as a talking Window Manager. These files can be found under emacspeak/stumpwm in your Emacspeak installation, or in the source code cloned from https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak.

File stumpwmrc is my StumpWM init file that I use to set up StumpWM as a talking window manager. With this setup, I run Emacs in one window and Chrome+ChromeVox in another window.

File xsession is my .xsession file — it launches StumpWM once lightdm has finished authentication. You can find my lightdm setup files in directory emacspeak/tvr/lightdm.

tts.lisp

Interface to Emacspeak TTS servers.

stumpwmrc

Code to insert into personal =.stumpwmr

xsession-

My= .xsession= file.

xlock

A light-weight screen-lock script.

To set this up, You should only need to edit the value of *emacspeak-dir* in the stumpwmrc file for setup.

1. All Keybindings match my usual screen setup, including the window-manager prefix-key.
2. C-\ is the window-manager key.
3. Switching windows speaks the title of the new window.
4. Stumpwm command for displaying window list C-\w also speaks the output.
5. The init file provides a simple lock-screen command bound to C-\d.
6. The above lock command invokes shell script xlock — that script takes care of playing an auditory icon when the desktop is locked or unlocked.
7. Window manager messages speak automatically; this can be toggled with C-\t.
8. If there is a lot of activity in a window that is not focused, you can turn off automatic speaking of messages using C-\t to avoid distraction.
9. StumpWM is set up to deny raise-focus requests — this is so that activity in a window doesn't automatically grab focus. I typically run with only one window displayed at a time.