Re: [orca-list] Using mate and gnome at the same arch system

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

Vsevolod Popov posed the questions:
> How do I change settings like shortcuts for switching keyboard layout 
> or assign them to open terminal?


Probably the best way in GNOME to do this is from the keyboard shortcuts 
application. If you don't find it under your all applications menu 
(super+a), you may need to press alt+f2 and enter

gnome-shortcuts

in the run window.


> Also, I noticed that when using GDM, it's not possible to change 
> Orca's preferences in it.


Nor is this possible in Lightdm unfortunately. The best way I've found 
to set preferences in a display manager is to copy Orca's folder into 
the home directory of your display manager. For example, to set Orca's 
preferences in gdm, you would set them for your regular user and then 
copy ~/.share/local/orca into /var/lib/gdm. Running the lines below in 
your terminal should do this for you.


sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/gdm/.local/share

sudo cp -R .local/share/orca /var/lib/gdm/.local/share

sudo chown -R gdm:gdm /var/gdm/.local


The next time you find yourself in a login screen, you should hear it 
speak using the preferences you copied. Hope this helps.

~Kyle