Re: [orca-list] Accessible Login Docs

["Mike Reiser" <metalhead1009000 gmail com>]

I'm a little confused, do I type .orbitrc and then press enter and then the 
code or what?  When I type .orbitrc and the code and press enter, no 
feedback is givven to tell me that it entered correctly.

Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Heim" <jheim math wisc edu>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:11
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Accessible Login Docs


> There have been a couple of posts on this list in the past week from 
> people
> (one of them me) who tried following the instructions on that page with
> little success. I think a big part of the problem is that that document 
> was
> written from a point of view that assumes a lot of prior knowledge. For
> example, "Accessibility is enabled by specifying the "GTK+ Greeter" in the
> "Local" tab for the console display and specifying the "GTK+ Greeter" in 
> the
> "Remote" tab for remote displays. Or you can modify the Greeter and
> RemoteGreeter configuration options by hand to be /usr/lib/gdmlogin. "
>
> On behalf of all new users of gnome/orca, may i just say, "Huh?"
>
> I think that means you should run gdmsetup and select those options. Or 
> you
> can edit /etc/gdm.conf and configure it by hand. But it doesn't say that.
> This is not exactly intended as a criticism of the documentation. I am
> actually just trying to explain why I think people (including me) are 
> having
> problems in spite of reading the docs. I make my living setting up 
> systems.
> Stuff like dhcp, dns, samba, lprng, apache, etc. I'm no stranger to the 
> term
> RTFM. But I think a lot of people are coming to orca with absolutely know
> knowledge of gnome or gdm. I know that's where I'm at.
>
> PS: Orca is really awesome. I've only had orca working since Monday and I
> took one evening off to shovel snow. So I've been playing with it for only 
> 2
> evenings and i was able to get real work done already.  I have a long way 
> to
> go. I have to configure email and figure out web browsing. But I was able 
> to
> use gedit to fix a config file and a terminal window to restart the 
> service.
> I tried learning to use a Mac last year and never got that proficient.
>
> > Just for future reference:
> >
> > http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/docs/2.20/accessibility.html
> >
> > There's also http://live.gnome.org/Orca/AccessibleLogin, which just
> > points to the above.
> >
> > Will
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