Re: Orca Running on the Edgy Live CD -- HOWTO

[Henrik Nilsen Omma <henrik ubuntu com>]

Rich Burridge wrote:
> * I used Control-Alt-F1 to bring up a virtual console to do the initial
>  run of Orca. It's less to type blindly then Alt-F2 and "gnome-terminal"
>  and "orca". Alt-F7 to get back to your desktop. Control-Alt-Backspace
>  as you suggest to logout.

Ah, very good. It didn't occur to me that on the live CD you actually 
end up at a prompt that is already logged in.
> * I logged back in and started up Orca, but then had real problems with
>  none of the applications I tried starting up. Visually the little 
> wheel icon
>  would "spin" and there would be a "Starting <application>" tab in the
>  gnome-panel but the application would not come up on the screen. By
>  going back to the virtual console, I could see that the app was running.

This sounds like a generic Live CD bug, possibly related to the AT-SPI 
or python instabilities we have seen recently.

Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> 1. Include a statement about the current need to use a *32-bit* Live CD
> rather than the 64-bit one.
>
> 2. Under step 4 (exploring the Ubuntu menus) and/or step 5 (installing
> Ubuntu), perhaps mention the relevant command just to get the person to
> the menus and/or the desktop.
>
> 3. Somewhere possibly include a link to the current GNOME Desktop
> Accessibility Guide.  I've found the keyboard navigation section to be
> quite helpful.

All good stuff, thanks! I've updated the guide accordingly.

- Henrik