Re: [orca-list] Slightly OT: Running gnome as root

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Rich Caloggero writes:
> What is the advantage or disadvantage of running gdm?  Is this a "window 
> manager"? What exactly does it do?

GDM has been programmed to support login accessibility via gestures such
as Ctrl-s to start speech. I may be wrong, but I don't believe you can
start gnome with a different Window Manager, and without Gnome, you have
no a11y.

> Sorry for my ignorance, but X startup has always been a mystery to me.  Any 
> docs that make this clear?
Don't know if it will make things clear, of course, but there is a man
page.

Janina