[orca-list] Comments regarding Ubuntu

["Chris Hallsworth" <christopherhallsworth71 googlemail com>]

Hi all, well I took Ubuntu for a very good test drive, and, although I like 
it, I have a couple of comments and possibly some urgent help.
1. I can't believe that a blind person can't perform administrative tasks as 
Orca doesn't speak when logged in as root, even if you did so via terminal 
using "sudo -i", without quotes. I understand that it's to do with the 
At-Spi, but couldn't this be fixed at all? I tried following some 
instructions on some forum post, and for one I couldn't save the changes, 
and, in one case, I got a "permission denied" message.
2. If we could get Orca to speak when logged in as root, we have to run Orca 
in text mode, correct? If so, then the keyboard doesn't respond to Orca at 
all, or should that be the other way round. It just asks me to select a 
desired voice, gives me the language and appropriate accent, the words 
"select choice", and that's it. Again can this be fixed at all? I can run 
Orca using the standard Gui fine.
And some urgent help please? If I do need to use the command line tool 
Terminal a lot, then I think the only way is to do lots of reading and maybe 
attempt to use my BrailleNote mPower as a bluetooth display so I can "feel" 
the output shown by Terminal. As I'm moderately deaf I can't always follow 
along what speech is saying, particularly in command line tools. So, I guess 
the question is, how can I get started?
Sorry for the ranting and the urgent help, but if I want to get the most out 
of Ubuntu using Orca then I guess this is the place to ask. So thanks very 
much for the help in advance, and I look forward to hearing from you.
Best wishes, from a Ubuntu fan, Chris.

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Chris Hallsworth
E-mail: christopherhallsworth71 googlemail com
MSN: ch9675 hotmail com