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

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

I think I have just realised what you might be doing, are you starting 
gnome using startx rather than GDM?

On my arch system (running gnome 2.30) using GDM to start gnome, the key 
you refer to is false in my user account but orca runs fine. Also on my 
debian system (also using GDM to start gnome) I don't remember ever 
having to manually set this key.

May be the difference is to do with using startx.

Michael Whapples
On 04/24/2010 01:09 PM, covici ccs covici com wrote:
> 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >        
>