Re: [orca-list] getting gdm screen to talk

[covici ccs covici com]

Well, I got some eyeballs on the case and I am getting oh no, something
has gone wrong, please logout and try again and hitting tab goes to the
logout button, but after that, screen is completely blank.

Any ideas?

covici ccs covici com wrote:

> OK, what is the debian-gdm at the end  -- is  that supposed to be the
> user or what?
>
> Also, thanks for the keystroke, it did not work, but I may have some
> other problems.  I did try to run orca by hand after exporting
> DISPLAY=:0 in a terminal logged in as root and I got screen reader on,
> but nothing after that.
>
> Jason White <jason jasonjgw net> wrote:
>
> > covici ccs covici com <covici ccs covici com> wrote:
> > > hmmm, isn't there an app to change the setting outside of gnome itself
> > > -- at least there used to be a way to do such things.  What I did do was
> > > to su - to gdm and run orca -t while there, would that do the trick?
> >
> > This used to work for Debian and possibly still does. Note that it's a single
> > shell command. You may be able to modify it for your distribution.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > This is taken from the debian-accessibility mailing list.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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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
>
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>          John Covici
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         covici ccs covici com