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

[Todor Fassl <fassl tod gmail com>]

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

Debian-gdm is a user on my debian wheezy system but not on my debian 
jessie system.

The command below gives me a "no protocol specified" error on wheezy and 
"no passwd entry" error on jessie.

On 05/21/14 05:29, 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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