Re: [orca-list] light weight accessible desktop for arch?

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
I have a script that automates all this now, but to set up xfce 
accessibly you do the following commands.First you install the xfce 
desktop and the panel plugins with pacman -S xfce4 xfce4-goodies. Those 
are both groups of packages  so you'll get something like, enter number 
of packages to install default all. Press enter both times and install. 
After that, you'll need to install orca manually if you don't already 
have anotehr desktop that pulled it in, just pacman -S orca. If you want 
any other progs taht aren't included in xfce, firefox, thunderbird etc 
install those. finally all you need to do is create a .xinitrc file in 
your home directory (nano .xinitrc). Add in the following, save and 
close. exec startxfce4 new line
On 06/28/2013 02:37 AM, Mobeen Iqbal wrote:
> Hello Kendell.
>
> Many thanks for getting back to me. I'm not asking for a step by step 
> guide, but could you outline what you had to do to get XFCE working 
> successfully on your arch install? there's a guide online but its from 
> 2010, i'm guessing things have changed since then. Even a brief list 
> of commands/files you had to edit. If you could let me know that would 
> be great.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Mo.
>
> On 28/06/2013 02:35, kendell clark wrote:
> > hi
> > I myself use xfce on my arch install. It's not quite equal to gnome, 
> > if only because the panel is not accessible yet, and the default file 
> > manager, thunar, is accessible but has some serious issues. But it's 
> > very fast, and all the settings dialogues and apps work beautifully. 
> > They're also viewable in flat review, something some gnome dialogues 
> > eitehr fail to do, or crash outright.
> > If you need help i can either email you on list or I can help you on 
> > the vinux channel.
> > On 06/27/2013 03:27 PM, Mobeen Iqbal wrote:
> > > Hi Everyone.
> > >
> > > I'm hoping someone can advise. Out of all the various desktops, 
> > > gnome varients, XFCE, LXDE etc, are there any desktops which are low 
> > > resource but still accessible to the point where you can use them 
> > > for every day use and where orca works with most apps and is not 
> > > unstable? I would like people's opinions because i'm wondering which 
> > > desktop to get going on my arch install and don't want to waste time 
> > > for example on XFCE if the user experience leaves something to be 
> > > desired. Any feedback greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > many thanks,
> > >
> > > Mo.
> > >
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> > > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > > The manual is at 
> > > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
 GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge. teh gtk_modules is in al caps, just in 
case orca doesn't say so. Then save and close. IF you want xfce to start 
at  boot up the best way to do this is by installing slim. Pacman -S 
slim. Edit /etc/slim.conf with your editor, search for default user it's 
set to simone by default. Change that to your user name. A few lines 
later set autologin to yes, uncomment it out, then save and close. 
Lastly, type systemctl enable slim.service this will make slim start up 
at boot up. IF you don't want xfce to launch at boot just type 
startxfce4 at a terminal when you're ready. To get xfce accessible once 
you're inside xfce, press alt+f1 to bring up the manu, scroll down to 
settings>accessibility, press enter. HIghlight the enable assistive 
technologies checkbox and check it, close the window. Xfce is not 
accessible.  You will need to install pcmanfm in order for the file 
manager to be accessible, as thunar is not, or not completely.
Phew, this is long. The last thing you'll need to do is go to 
menu>settings>preferred applications. for file manager, set it to 
pcmanfm, or another one if you have one. Web browser should be set to 
firefox, likewise for thunderbird. That gets xfce working. It's not 
complete yet, you don't have keyboard shortcuts up yet but it's usable.
If you want any  more help I'll write back. It's a lot of work but once 
working you shouldn't need to re-do it. Hope I don't sound too formal, 
it's 3 a.m and i'm about to drop, lol.

Thanks