Re: [orca-list] Fedora 11 gdm success

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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I found this old message in my mail box and thought I would give
Terry's steps a try on my Arch system and it does work (somewhat).  I
have to say "somewhat" because the gdm login login dialog now says
"Welcome to Orca using the Cepstral voice; that is an interesting
observation but nothing else talks.  Is it supposed to at this point?
I'm not sure how much accessibility we should be getting in the login
screen.  I figured we would hear speech as you tab around or if you
get an error like bad password and such.

Is there more that I should do to git this talking even better?  At
least I'm finally cracking the ice on the accessible login issue here.

Thanks Terry for your comments (below).

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:31:43PM -0500, Terry Klarich wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> How in the world does one get orca talking on Fedora 11 during the the gdm login screen anyway?
>
> Well, I'll tell you.
>
> First of all, I prefer Fedora because all my linux machines at work are Redhat.  By running Fedora, I get a 
> preview what is coming
> up in Redhat's future.  
>
> I installed Fedora 11 with the telnet install using a kick start file.  Those turkeys hacked up the 
> anaconda text based install
> such that the resulting system is built with one large volume and no option to modify the disk 
> partitioning.  The menu to
> choose packages has been removed as well.  What a durty trick.  I'd say the really ticked me off.  Their 
> solution is VNC; but, they
> don't seem to understand that this is useless  for obtaining text output for speech synthesis.  Maybe a vnc 
> client with some sort
> of OCR will be what we have to do.
>
> I am hoping there is a way to start orca during the install so that a graphical installation is possible.  
> I didn't find it in the
> installation guide.  So, if someone knows something I don't, please let me know.
>
> Once, the system is installed, connect to your system with ssh and run these commands.  This is a direct 
> cut and paste from my
> session:
> [root green ~]# chsh -s /bin/bash gdm
> Changing shell for gdm.
> Shell changed.
> [root green ~]# su - gdm
> -bash-4.0$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility
> false
> -bash-4.0$ gconftool-2 --set --type bool  /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility true
> -bash-4.0$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility
> true
> -bash-4.0$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/applications/at/screen_reader_enabled
> false
> -bash-4.0$ gconftool-2 --set --type bool /desktop/gnome/applications/at/screen_reader_enabled true
> -bash-4.0$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/applications/at/screen_reader_enabled
> true
> -bash-4.0$ exit
> logout
> [root green ~]# chsh -s /sbin/nologin gdm
> Changing shell for gdm.
> Shell changed.
> [root green ~]# telinit 3 && sleep 10 && telinit 5
>
> What I did was:
> Unlock the gdm account
> As the gdm user, turn on the needed accessibility parameters using gconf
> lock the gdm account again
> Stop and restart X
>
> After reading about gconf, I have to admit I am impressed with the plan.  A lot of thought has been put 
> into gconf.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Terry
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