Re: [orca-list] Accessing Admin Tools with Orca

[<aerospace1028 hotmail com>]

> Hello,
>
> Is anyone able to access admin/root tools successfully with Orca? I tried the .orbitrc tip on the web site 
> but still when I open the gdmsetup application, it does not speak. 

two things.

1: What gnu/linux distribution are you running? (ubuntu8.04, open SuSE, Solaris, etc)  Some recent 
distributions also require a modification to the sudoers file.  Directions to the steps are provided on the 
wiki under the ubuntu hardy page.  (I notice that under the doc index, this page is not listed.  Is there a 
reason for that?)

2: To my knowledge, after system administration is propperly established, 'gdmsetup" is still inaccessible.  
Someone with more expertese than I will be needed to explain why.  Can you run any other admin tools?

> Also - I attempted to set up the accessible login stuff but holding down ctrl+s for a second doesn't work as 
> expected. Something happens, because when I hit backspace I don't hear the gdm login prompt beep but there 
> is no speech. 

I'm not sure what's going on here.  Did you remember to add gdm to the audio permissions group?  When you ran 
the gdmflexiserver command, what was the output?  I mis-typed something once, and the command didn't print an 
error, it just displayed a command prompt.  If gdmflexiserver exicutes successfully, it should print "O.K." 
before returning to the command prompt.

The only other thing I can think of, is to check /etc/gdm/modules/AccessKeyMouseEvents, and ensuring that 
launching orca with speach is pre-defined.  (Or, I change the one second requirement to any press of CTRL+s 
by changing 1000 miliseconds to 0).

I hope this is of some help:-)

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