Re: [orca-list] A tale of two boxes

["Ignasi Cambra" <ignasicambra gmail com>]

I have installed Intrepid several times on the same machine, and Orca 
sometimes reads those dialogs and sometimes doesn't. So basically I have no 
idea, but it happens to me too. I had Intrepid installed on the computer and 
it didn't read them. Then I reinstalled it for other reasons and it worked. 
And last week I had to reinstall it again and it didn't work. So...

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nolan Darilek" <nolan thewordnerd info>
To: "Orca List" <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 2:19 PM
Subject: [orca-list] A tale of two boxes


> So this is baffling me and I don't know how to solve it. I have two 
> Intrepid boxen, one my desktop and another my Eee. Both have relatively 
> new and fresh installs of Intrepid. Both are running trunk Orca. On my 
> EEE, however, the shutdown/logout dialogs are accessible, as is the screen 
> lock dialog. This has always been true as far as I remember, since the 
> screen locks when waking from suspend and I've always been able to hear 
> the password prompt. On my desktop, these dialogs don't work and are 
> called inaccessible by orca.
>
> And I can't figure out why this is true. Both are running orca trunk. The 
> orca configs are the same. The .orca directory is stored in my dropbox 
> (http://getdropbox.com) and synced across all my machines, so changes on 
> one should be picked up on another. The laptop has very minimal 
> accessibility configuration. No /root/.orbitrc, no tweaks to /etc/sudoers, 
> nothing. And both are latest Ubuntu.
>
> I've grepped both ~/.gconf directories and see nothing that looks like a 
> GTK modules list. I know there was talk about merging in certain gconf 
> keys to make these programs work, and I don't see these in the .gconf 
> directory on the laptop. And I've read here recently that others have 
> gotten the lock/logout dialogs to work, so I know that it's possible, I 
> just don't know why it works great on my laptop and not at all on my 
> desktop. To my knowledge, they're both running the latest Intrepid with 
> all updates, and again, they've both gotten fresh installs recently.
>
> Thoughts on what I should investigate?
>
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