Re: [orca-list] Orca won't read gnome desktop stuff

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Michael:

It sounds like Debian may not have properly configured GNOME to 
initialize accessibility properly.  There are many many things that 
could be going wrong (see 
http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Mechanics).  I suspect that the 
gnome-session startup is not starting the at-spi-registryd, which means 
that things launched from gnome-session (e.g., the desktop, the panels, 
etc.) will not be accessible.

Will

Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a problem with orca not seeing any of the gnome desktop stuff. 
> Let me explain what I mean a bit further. I have orca set to start 
> automatically so when I log in to gnome orca starts and says "Welcome to 
> orca". When I try and move about the desktop or access menus or press 
> alt+f2 for the run dialog orca doesn't seem to be aware of any of this 
> (I have turned debugging on and sure enough there is no mention of 
> events from this sort of activity in the debug log). If I start an 
> application from the run dialog (eg. thunderbird, gedit) then orca 
> starts reading those applications but still doesn't see the 
> gnome-desktop, gnome menus, etc.
>
> What can I do to try and find out what the problem is? Any ideas of what 
> might be wrong and how I might fix it?
>
> My system is a debian unstable system running orca 2.28.1. I think the 
> problems are related to an upgrade I did recently, does anyone know how 
> I could get apt to reverse some of its latest steps (either that or at 
> least a log of what it did so I can reverse the changes manually) and so 
> try and find out the package causing the problem.
>
> Michael Whapples
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