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

[Mobeen Iqbal <mobeeniqbal gmail com>]

hi kendell,

Many thanks i'll give that a try later today! Do i need to manually 
install AT-Spi? or does that get pulled in when orca is installed?

Thanks,

Mo.

On 28/06/2013 09:04, kendell clark wrote:
> 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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>  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