Re: [orca-list] Admin Features for Slackware Users

[Garrett Klein <garrettklein comcast net>]

Steve,

It's not just on Ubuntu, I have those instructions working on my Gentoo 
2008.0 system. The env_reset command seems to be rather common in 
/etc/sudoers files. I haven't used Slackware in awhile, unfortunately, 
so can't help you with your problem.

Garrett

Steve Holmes wrote:
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> I thought I would try and apply some of the methods outlined in the
> wiki page for system administrative functions and the notes recently
> placed on this list.  Namely the .orbit file in /root home directory
> and the update to /etc/sudoers file.  But alas, it doesn't work for
> me.  I get a password prompt when I go into any of the functions off
> the admin menu but upon entering the root password, all goes silent.
> As soon as I exit that function, then I get Orca back.  Once I tried
> to start Orca from within that function and Orca started but then when
> I alt tabbed back and forth, I would hear that admin function was
> "Inaccessible". Orca actually spoke "Inaccessible." But if I try and
> alt tab to that task anyway, it just goes silent. I can alt tab away
> from that silent task and then I have speech again.  I also tried for
> the heck of it to run "sudo orca" from an alt-F2 run box but that went
> silent and I had to restart X to get out of that one.  I also cannot
> run startx from a root session either.  I don't know enough about
> gnome to understand why it works from a normal user but not from
> root.  Seems strange to me.
>
> Anyway, are there any Slackware users out there being able to use any
> of the admin functions from Orca?  It would appear that the
> instructions and hipe about accessing admin stuff only works for
> Ubuntu for some dumb reason.
>
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