Re: [orca-list] orca best practices

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hello John,

Perhaps you would be better served with ditching Gnome Classic and
switching over to Gnome Shell. Version 3.4.1 and above are reasonably
accessible, and personally I see no reason to go back to Gnome
Classic.  Is there any specific reason why you need to have Gnome
Classic menus etc here?

Cheers!


On 3/20/13, John G. Heim <jheim math wisc edu> wrote:
> Okay, so I got the gnome-classic menu working on my debian wheezy
> system. But I still don't know how to log out.  The system menu that was
> in previous versions of gnome is gone. Googling shows me that it can't
> be restored. I don't exactly approve  of that but my main problem is
> that I don't  know what I am supposed to do to log out.
>
> BTW, I've been logging out by switching to a text console and restarting
> gdm3, "/etc/init.d/gdm3 restart". After that, orca doesn't work but I
> found if I also kill off speech-dispatcher processes ownd by the end
> user (not a daemon), orca works again.
>
> Boy, my end users are not going to like this new gnome desktop. You
> really ought to be able to get the old gnome desktop. A few of them
> complained bitterly when Alt+Control+Backkspace  stopped working. I sure
> wish those gnome developers would stop messing with us.