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

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Daniel:

Glad you got this working.  On a high level note, I acknowledge that it 
is a pain in the butt for users to have to do this.  It should be much 
easier and users should not need to know Unix command line syntax and 
such in order to get going.  Eventually, I hope we can sort it out.

Will

On May 8, 2008, at 3:58 AM, Daniel Dalton wrote:

> 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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