Re: [orca-list] Accessing administration tools in Ubuntu 8.04.

["Darragh" <lists digitaldarragh com>]

Even after updating everything on the system using apt-get and updating
orca from the 2.22 branch on SVN, the problem continues.

Darragh
www.digitaldarragh.com

On Thu, April 3, 2008 2:25 pm, Darragh wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm so far impressed with Orca's snappyness out of the box in Ubuntu 8.04.
>  It's also a welcome improvement to no longer have to hunting for firefox
> from the nightly build on a new installation.
>
> However, from my brief usage of Ubuntu 8.04, I'm finding that Orca isn't
> behaving very well when trying to run it as root.
>
> In the installation, it didn't speak at all.  I specified the usual
> command: orca --no-setup --disable main-window but got no speech.  running
> ubiquity then obviously wasn't great as I had no screen reader.
>
> Anyway, with a bit of luck i got someone to read the screen during te
> installation so it's up and running now.
>
> My issue is that while trying to configure something like the software
> sources, Orca still will not speak the window.
>
> I'll update Orca and Ubuntu in a short while however before I do that I
> thought it would be beneficial to note down my findings here.
>
> I know that this is still a beta so it's very likely this will be fixed in
> the released version.
>
> Oh wow. just looked at the updates!  There are a lot!
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Darragh
> www.digitaldarragh.com
>
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