[orca-list] A tale of two boxes

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

So this is baffling me and I don't know how to solve it. I have two 
Intrepid boxen, one my desktop and another my Eee. Both have relatively 
new and fresh installs of Intrepid. Both are running trunk Orca. On my 
EEE, however, the shutdown/logout dialogs are accessible, as is the 
screen lock dialog. This has always been true as far as I remember, 
since the screen locks when waking from suspend and I've always been 
able to hear the password prompt. On my desktop, these dialogs don't 
work and are called inaccessible by orca.

And I can't figure out why this is true. Both are running orca trunk. 
The orca configs are the same. The .orca directory is stored in my 
dropbox (http://getdropbox.com) and synced across all my machines, so 
changes on one should be picked up on another. The laptop has very 
minimal accessibility configuration. No /root/.orbitrc, no tweaks to 
/etc/sudoers, nothing. And both are latest Ubuntu.

I've grepped both ~/.gconf directories and see nothing that looks like a 
GTK modules list. I know there was talk about merging in certain gconf 
keys to make these programs work, and I don't see these in the .gconf 
directory on the laptop. And I've read here recently that others have 
gotten the lock/logout dialogs to work, so I know that it's possible, I 
just don't know why it works great on my laptop and not at all on my 
desktop. To my knowledge, they're both running the latest Intrepid with 
all updates, and again, they've both gotten fresh installs recently.

Thoughts on what I should investigate?