Re: [orca-list] accessing gdmsetup on ubuntu with orca - what am I missing?

[Daniel Dalton <d dalton iinet net au>]

Set up sysadmin: follow instructions on the wiki. I asked about this only 
about a day ago, so also see the archives.
Its actually quite simple if you pay attention to the page which I did not 
do: just cat > the lines into root's .orbitrc file and then if you cat it:
$ cat ~/.orbitrc
You should see the 2 lines you entered into the file.
Also make sure you edit /etc/sudoers correctly with visudo, see the wiki 
for instructions.
If you did all this including edit visudo, sysadmin should work!

Be sure to do all this as root, then log out and back in, restart orca and 
run:
sudo <my_admin_tool>
In your case:
sudo gdmsetup
from gnome-terminal.

There you go, does this work?

Cheers.

On Thu, 8 May 2008, Derek London wrote:

> I've only ever dabbled in the use of linux so I'm not as proficient as I'd like to be so I'll apologize in 
> advance for the babbling. I've read all kinds of instructions from all kinds of people using all kinds of 
> versions of all kinds of variants of linux describing just how simple it is to be able to use gdmsetup. I've 
> tried everything I could find, most of it without speech since it requires you to edit files that you can only 
> save changes to as root. My question is what is the correct procedure to get orca to read the gdmsetup dialog? Is 
> it not yet or no longer possible in ubuntu 8.04? I read that I would have to go into gnome-terminal and then type 
> sudo su and then enter my password. Then killall orca, and then enter orca -n -d main-window& and then launch 
> another terminal window, typing sudo su and my password again, and then typing gdmsetup. What usually happens is 
> I hear welcome to orca, and then nothing more. when I close all those terminal windows and then alt+f2 a
nd type orca, it comes back up and will only read while on the desktop or scrolling through menus, but not 
any dialogs including the orca preferences. I then have to log out and back in to get it to operate normally. 
Another set of instructions had me editing /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom, going to the [security] section and 
adding AllowRoot=true under it. Another page of instructions I found had me editing /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and 
removing comments before certain lines, which I didn't do after reading somewhere that gdm.conf-custom would 
override gdm.conf. Still another set of instructions says:
> The first thing you need to do is create a ~/.orbitrc file for the root user:sudo su - root
> cat > ~/.orbitrc << EOF
> ORBIIOPIPv4=1
> ORBIIOPUNIX=0
> EOF. So after having done all of that in different orders and multiple times, I'm still wondering how to get 
> orca to speak in the gdmsetup dialog... I would be thankful if someone could refer me to some instructions 
> for the latest version of ubuntu or help me get an idea of anything I might have missed.

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