Re: [orca-list] Orca gedit and sudo

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi,

Another option is to copy the file that you need to edit to your home 
directory, edit it as you would any normal file, and then use sudo to copy 
the new version of the file back to its original location.

Good luck,

dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason White" <jason jasonjgw net>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca gedit and sudo


> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 08:44:24PM -0300, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
>
> > I am trying to edit the grub menu list, which I assume needs to be done 
> > through sudo.  Here is what I've done and my problem.
> >
> > 1. Open a terminal window.
> > 2. type "sudo gedit" and press enter.
> > 3. enter my password and press enter.
> > 4. Orca stops talking and nothing I do (ALT Tab or ALT F4) gets it to 
> > start again.
>
> Orca, running under your login identity, won't interact with Gnome
> applications executed as root without additional configuration, which has 
> been
> much discussed on this mailing list (I would suggest reading the 
> archives).
>
> The best solution is to use an editor such as Emacs, Vi, or even a very 
> basic
> one such as Nano, instead of gedit, to make the configuration changes.
>
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