Re: [orca-list] Accessible Login

["John Heim" <jheim math wisc edu>]

I'm not clear on what orbit has to do with this. I put myself in the sudoers 
file. I can run gdmsetup by saying 'sudo gdmsetup'.  But it doesn't talk. 
Are you saying I need to use orbit for that?

Maybe you could post your /root/.orbitrc file.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny hittsjunk net>
To: "John Heim" <jheim math wisc edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Accessible Login


> Hi.
>
> I have a .orbitrc file in /root so I can get access to admin commands 
> started as me.
> I start gdmsetup by typing: su -c 'gdmsetup' in a gnome-terminal.  Suedo 
> gdmsetup should also work.
>
> The only thing here with eyes is my cat.  Cats make very bad screen 
> readers.
>
>          Kenny
>
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 07:29:32PM -0600, John Heim wrote:
> > I'm not getting speech when I run gdmsetup and according to the docs, 
> > orca
> > doesn't work with gdmsetup. Did you get it to work somehow or did you get
> > sighted assistance?
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny hittsjunk net>
> > To: <orca-list gnome org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 10:00 AM
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] Accessible Login
> >
> >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > Instead of editing files, I ran gdmsetup from a gnome-terminal.  Once I
> > > enabled accessibile login, the needed lines were written to 
> > > /etc/gdm.conf.
> > > I can start ORca at login with control-s.  For some reason, it has to be
> > > right control the left control with s doesn't work.
> > > Orca does start and I get speech and Braille.  Unfortunately, ORca 
> > > doesn't
> > > read anything.
> > >
> > > I'm running The latest Debian Sid.  Gdm 2.20.1.
> > >
> > >          Kenny
> > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 10:06:41PM -0600, John Heim wrote:
> > > > I'm trying to configure gdm on a debian/lenny so that I can start orca 
> > > > at
> > > > the login prompt. I am working from the instructions here:
> > > > http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/docs/2.18/accessibility.html
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I added 2 lines to the [daemon] section of /etc/gdm/gdm.conf:
> > > > AddGtkModules=true
> > > > GtkModulesList=gail:atk-bridge:dwellmouselistener:keymouselistener
> > > >
> > > > The instructions say to uncomment thoselines from your gdm.conf but 
> > > > there
> > > > weren't in there to uncomment. Anyway, then it says to modify
> > > > /etc/gdm/modules/AccessKeyMouseEvents. But it appears that it's already
> > > > configured to start orca by pressing <Control>s. Or you can start orca
> > > > with
> > > > magnification via pressing <Control>m.
> > > >
> > > > But it doesn't work. Anybody have any idea why?
> > > >
> > > >
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