Re: [orca-list] should orca set up atk gconf?

[covici ccs covici com]

Well, I found I had to set the key manually for my regular user before
the registry daemon would start properly and this seems to be something
new -- in other words, not just for the gdm user, but for the user I
normally log in with I had to set the atk key.

Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com> wrote:

> Hello John,
> As far as I understand it, orca sets all gconf keys needed to run orca
> once you have logged in to gnome (this includes the one to start
> at-spi). The only keys you need to set manually are those for
> accessible log in. I don't think orca could set these keys for
> accessible log in as it requires setting them for another user (using
> sudo, su, etc) and so you can't guarantee whether the user running
> orca will have the correct permissions.
>
> Is the current situation fine, I think possibly as its something a
> user may never do (as its something which only those granted extra
> permissions can do) or if they do need to do it then it only needs
> doing once per linux installation. Could it be made easier, yes a GUI
> tool could be created and put in administrative applications (I feel
> the best place for it, this is where gdmsetup was to be found but
> that's deprecated now).
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, covici ccs covici com wrote:
> > Hi.  I was trying to get orca to work on my gentoo system and sometime
> > in the 2.28 cycle or thereafter apparently it was necessary too  set
> > /desktop/gnome/applications/at/screen_reader_enabled to true for the
> > registry daemon to properly start.  I wonder if Orca should set this in
> > its setup -- seems to be harmless and would save a lot of confusion --
> > at least it would have for me.
> >
> > Thanks for all the great work on Orca.
> >
> >    

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