Re: [orca-list] LXDE with Orca

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Nolan:

If you could log a bug with the LXDE folks (http://www.lxde.org/) and 
provide a link to it here, that would be great.  They are the ones that 
really need to be aware of what they are breaking (or purposely not 
supporting).

Will

On Feb 28, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Nolan Darilek wrote:

> I know the topic of running LXDE with Orca has surfaced here before. 
> Google searches seem to indicate that it is accessible but doesn't 
> offer rich enough keyboard navigation.
>
> Last night I was investigating this more closely and am confused. 
> Ubuntu's LXDE metapackage installs openbox by default, and a bit of 
> digging reveals an openbox config with a number of keyboard shortcuts.
>
> So I set about attempting to get this working, and am wondering if 
> whomever dit it can share how they managed? The first stumbling block 
> is that my default config uses SD, which is configured to use Pulse, 
> which isn't started automatically in the LXDE session. One quick SSH 
> later and I had in place a config file that uses ALSA. I then launched 
> SD, then Orca and got the "Welcome to Orca." message, but nothing 
> else.
>
> From this I would conclude that accessibility and the necessary GTK 
> modules aren't loaded. As the load mechanism was apparently changed 
> late in the 2.24/Intrepid cycle, I'm not sure of the...no pun 
> intended...canonical way to load GTK modules. Are they being loaded in 
> gconf? A quick "grep -ri gail" in ~/.gconf reveals nothing, so I'm 
> guessing there's either some system-wide gconf scheme kicking in, or 
> that the GTK_MODULES environment variable is still being set 
> somewhere. If so, where would one set it such that Ubuntu's session 
> manager load mechanism picks it up?
>
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