Re: [orca-list] Orca Login Window Talks but Session Hasn't Talked yet.

["Bill Dengler(arch Gnu/Linux)" <billkd2008 gmail com>]

Try pressing the super key, typing orca, and pressing enter.

Bill
On 05/25/13 23:44, Martin McCormick wrote:
>         I built a wheezy system and enabled speakup in the
> kernel so it has always chattered away in command-line mode but
> I really wanted to get gnome working and have had a lot of
> problems so far but I think I am very close.
>
>         I read that orca and espeakup don't get along well so I
> booted the system and hit the print-screen key as soon as I
> heard the first word from speakup. That key kills speakup and
> then, for the first time ever, I got the talking login for orca
> that says, "Welcome to orca" and prompts for one's unix login.
>
>         I enter that and a who output from a ssh session started
> on another machine shows I am logged in to ttyS7 so I am logged
> in. Of course, the who output also shows my login via the ssh
> session so I am in, but I never can produce any more output
> using the arrow keys or the tab. Occasionally, the system will
> sputter after I hit a few keys, but it never has said anything
> useful after I successfully log in.
>
>         The remote ssh session still works and the system is
> quite alive but my desktop doesn't talk any longer.
>
>         Any ideas on what I should look for to keep the system
> talking after the X login?
>
>         I had originally built the system without enabling orca
> by default but the debian wiki gave the following command in
> wheezy which does appear to have worked when I ran it:
>
> su -s /bin/sh -c 'eval $(dbus-launch)  ; export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID  ; 
> GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications screen-reader-enabled true' 
> Debian-gdm || true
>
> Thanks for any constructive suggestions.
>
> Martin McCormick
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