It is frustrating to me that this accessibility stuff (along with lots of other bloatware) is required to use MATE. I am not in need of a screen-reader, so why must I install and run accessibility software to begin with? When I look into the conf file on a fresh 19.04 install in: /usr/share/default…

At-spi2 and package bloat

eleven11 3 January 2020 17:20 5

So I updated to 19.10 today. Even with this entry still present, SPI2 is more than happy to run and do its spying. I am going to have to shop for a new distro and maybe a new desktop environment.