Re: [orca-list] unusual behavior with latest master?

[covici ccs covici com]

Yep, that did it -- putting the export in the run orca script did it, I
am sure I loseon upgrade -- oh well.  The overwriting settings only
happens with gdm, with the normal user its fine -- I wonder  -- it must
think there are no settings or something.  I wonder how it knew before
about speech dispatcher?  

Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com> wrote:

> GDM is broken in several ways right now.  First off, to get the
> environment variable to be recognized by Orca, you will have to modify
> the /usr/bin/orca file directly and insert the following line 
>     . /etc/profile.d/speechd.sh
> at the top of the runorca function.
>
> Now this speechd.sh script merely sets the environment variable on my
> system when speech dispatcher is started.  If you start speech
> dispatcher by some other method, then you could insert the export
> speechd parameter in this spot instead.  The bottom line here is Orca
> does not see the environment when started with gem; I don't know why.
>
> The other problem you are having is with the new orca settings,  they
> keep getting overwritten even when I create new ones.  This bug has
> been noted.
>
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 02:14:03PM +1100, Jason White wrote:
> > covici ccs covici com <covici ccs covici com> wrote:
> >  
> > > I usually start gdm, but  its shell isn ologin, so I ampuzzled.  Also, I
> > > did put a line in my .bashrc figuring it would login and pick it up
> > > there, but nothing happened.  Also, for gdm the orca settings get copied
> > > from somewhere each time I start gdm -- is this by design?
> >
> > Yes, I think it is, since obviously the configuration shouldn't be read from your
> > home directory until you log in (at least, not in a multi-user environment,
> > which Linux inherently provides).
> >
> > You could try setting your environment variable in /etc/rc.local in case that
> > helps. there might be a gdm configuration option that you need to preserve
> > environment variables as well - have a look at the gdm documentation, or wait
> > for a reply from someone who knows gdm.
> >
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