Re: Orca Access to system administration apps (Re: has it ben fixed)

[Joanmarie Diggs <j-diggs comcast net>]

Are you using Feisty or Edgy?  As Kenny pointed out, this works in 
Feisty.  My apologies for any confusion, and thanks Kenny for the 
clarification!

Krister Ekstrom wrote:
> Hi Joanie,
> I did the .orbitrc thing yesterday and ... it didn't work. I didn't get
> any speech out of Synaptic when i tried running it as user but perhaps i
> did something wrong somewhere although i thought i did everything right.
> I could've spelled .orbitrc wrong or such. Maybe it should all be in
> uppercase... or that the file should contain something else that i
> wasn't aware of besides those two lines, but if so those things should
> be posted here... Well anyways for me it didn't work yesterday evening
> swedish time.
> /Krister
>
>
> Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Hi Mike.
> >
> > > Thanks, I just noticed that.
> > Yup, things change daily with pre-release software.  One simply has to 
> > sit tight -- or perhaps hold on tight.  I find a good sense of humor 
> > combined with frequent backups helps as well. <grin>
> >
> > > Now if they would just get these things to work with orca.
> > I believe these things generally *do* work with Orca -- once you do the 
> > .orbitrc thing.  Did you see the instructions I posted yesterday?   Here 
> > they are again just in case:
> >
> > 1. Launch gnome-terminal
> > 2. Type sudo su and press Return
> > 3. Type in your password and press Return
> > 4. Type cd /root
> > 5. Type nano .orbitrc press Return
> > 6. Add these lines:
> >     ORBIIOPIPv4=1
> >     ORBIIOPUNIX=0
> > 7. Press Control O to write out the changes, followed by Return when 
> > prompted for the file name
> > 8. Press Control X to exit nano
> > 9. Reboot
> >
> > --Joanie
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