Re: [orca-list] Question about installing Gnome on Archlinux

["Christian" <christian08 runbox com>]

Hi Mike,
Many thanks for this info.
Will give it a try and see how it goes for me.
I am used to debian so this is a little different, but I look forward of doing this and see how it goes.
Just a question, later on I may want to install some servers, like ProFTPD and on Debian when I installed it 
it was run as an own user, which is good.
Have you installed that?
Many thanks,
Christian

On 2010-04-05 at 22:13 Michael Whapples wrote:

> The quick instructions (shouldn't really differ from the docs).
>
> Install the following (may install more than you want but should get
> everything required): xorg, gnome gnome-extra xorg-video-drivers
> xorg-input-drivers gamin
> The following command should do that:
> pacman -S xorg gnome gnome-extra xorg-video-drivers xorg-input-drivers
> gamin
>
> Ensure the things you want to start at boot up are added to the daemons
> array in the /etc/rc.conf file. You need hal for detection of hardware
> like USB drives, you want gdm for graphical login. The daemons array is
> the line beginning
> DAEMONS=(
> put the required daemons between the open and close brackets on that
> line (I put hal and gdm after network and with hal first).
>
> If you want a non-US keymap in gnome then copy the file
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi to
> /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ and then edit the file searching for ">us<"
> (without the quote marks). Change the us to whatever your country code
> is (NOTE: It may differ from that for the text console, the British
> layout for text console is uk but in this file it should be gb).
>
> Optionally set gnome to auto login after a length of time, so in
> /etc/gdm/custom.conf make sure the following block appears (NOTE: some
> of this might already exist, my system had the section headings).
> [daemon]
> TimedLoginEnable=true
> TimedLogin=mike
> TimedLoginDelay=5
>
> Where I put "mike" in the above change it for your username and where I
> give 5 on the TimedLoginDelay line change it to whatever number of
> seconds you want before auto login.
>
> Now this is where I got stuck, start gnome and try and start orca, it
> didn't work as smooth as it should for me. May be try and run orca in
> text mode in a text console to set it up. Where orca did work for me was
> in a gnome-terminal, so try that if everything else fails (unfortunately
> getting orca running in gnome terminal does rely on you typing correct
> to get gnome-terminal, etc).
>
> Good luck, I'll be interested to know if everything just works for you
> or if you also hit problems.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On -10/01/37 20:59, Christian wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > OK, so I will be installing Arch later tonight and going to use the
> Speakup CD in this case and install BRLTTY afterwards.
> > Going to follow the beginners guide when installing X and Gnome. Just a
> quick quesiton if there's anything I  should keep in mind when installing
> this?
> > I know that Michael is working on a podcast on this thing, but was just
> wondering if there are any special things I should be aware of as a blind
> user when installing this.
> > Many thanks,
> > Christian
>
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