Re: [orca-list] orca unable to read main menu

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On Mon, Mar 10, 2014, at 06:48 PM, Don Raikes wrote:
> Hello,
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> When using orca on my Oracle Linux system, if I press alt+f1, all orca
> can read are the top-level menus "applications" and "places"
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> If I arrow down, orca says nothing, but brltty shows "gnome-shell
> window".
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> I don't know if this because it is gnome 3.8 or if there is some kind of
> configuration setting I can change to make this work.
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> Any help would be appreciated.
it sounds to me like your distribution has chosen to set the gnome
classic session as the default. From the gnome 3.8 release notes, gnome
classic is a more traditional looking desktop that is built on gnome 3
technologies. When I tested this in gnome 3.8, I recall that orca did
not read the options when using the arrow keys as focus changed. I do
remember being able to use this with flat review. If you don't want to
mess with that and can't get speech in gdm, you might be able to set the
shell session as default in ~/.dmrc. However, I remember reading
somewhere that when using accountsservice which gdm does, .dmrc wasn't
read but I never tested this myself. I think the options were
gnome.desktop and gnome-classic.desktop but its been a long time since i
messed with this. You might also be able to remove the gnome-classic
session with your package manager or rename the  desktop entry in
/usr/share/xsessions to prevent gdm from picking it up. If you do either
of these, make sure you have the standard gnome session installed i.e
you have a gnome.desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions. Also, it looks
like your distribution is shipping miss-matched versions of gnome and
orca. The version of orca you have is from gnome 3.6 and your version of
gnome is 3.8. From what I gather, quite a lot changed in the stack
between these two versions so you might get weird bugs running this
combination.
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