Re: [orca-list] date and time as well as system administration with orca?

[Daniel Dalton <d dalton iinet net au>]

Hi Will,

On Wed, 7 May 2008, Willie Walker wrote:

> > - Can someone attach their orca-customizations.py script so I can have a 
> > hotkey for date and time?
> > I don't have braille so its hard to check the indentation and it doesn't 
> > seem to say the time after following the instructions on the orca site.
>
> I just cut/pasted the exact code from the "How I can customize Orca so it can 
> speak / braille current date and time information with a keyboard command??" 
> question of the FAQ:
>
> http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
>
> It works for me.  So, I suspect maybe you might have some syntax errors or 
> something in your file.  :-(

Indeed, I really need braille back... :-)
I used  shift down arrow in firefox to highlight the code, ctr + c to copy 
the selection
and pasted straight into gedit, when launching orca it brought up the 
preferences...

Anyway, its working, but I'll see what I was doing wrong.

 >
> > - How do I setup sysadmin?
> > I read that a ~/.orbitrc file must be created? Is this correct? (for root)
> > Then what lines should it contain?
> > (and how should the indentation be?)
> > I had trouble with the instructions from the website again, and would like 
> > to be able to use my graphical desktop more often.
>
> http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SysAdmin has the instructions, but they might not 
> be concise enough if you're skimming.  In a nutshell, assuming you're using 
> Ubuntu:

I'm a debian user. Anyway, I'm really sorry, I should have kept reading, 
the problem was with sudo, a line just had to be changed.
Similar to what you were saying, but not exactly the same.
Sorry, next time I'll pay more attention... :-)

> 2) Edit "/etc/sudoers" to add the following line after the line with 
> "env_reset" in it.  Again, spelling/punctuation/case are important and I 
> believe it needs to be *after* the "env_reset" line:

This was the problem, but this line didn't exist.

> Defaults env_keep+="GTK_MODULES"

Yes, a line similar to this with out the gtk stuff existed, I commented 
this out and pasted this one in.
I think it is also good to use visudo as root.

> Hope this helps,

It did, thanks.
And sorry again for skimming! :-)

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Daniel Dalton

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