Re: [orca-list] gnome-classic

[Todor Fassl <fassl tod gmail com>]

I think you can log in normally too. After I posted my question, I tried 
just logging in via the regular gnome login screen and I got speech.


On 05/22/14 20:18, B. Henry wrote:
> Yes, startx is run from the tty where you want your xsession after one has booted and logged-in using the CLI.
> When you do this you should kill speakup in the console where you will run the startx command. You can type 
> the command
> and wait to press enter until you have killed speakup if you want to make sure you typed things correctly.
> Then if you log out of the graphical session you turn speakup back on and can use that console for other 
> tasks. I am not
> sure about gnome as I do not run it on this machine where I use the startx method to start my desktops, but 
> with XFCE or
> mate I must kill speech-dispatcher  after logging out of the GUI, i.e. killall speech-dispatcher.
> Before doing this try
> pgrep speech-dispatcher to see if it is still running.
> I think you will have a ~/.gnome-logout file, and if so you could put a command to kill speech-dispatcher in 
> there to
> avoid having to manually kill it each log-out I think.
> I really like running my GUI with startx instead of using a desktop manager to auto-start a desktop. It means 
> I'm up and
> working in the CLI in around 20 seconds instead of waiting on the graphical desktop to load. I am doing this 
> on a netbook
> so doing things this way means I have plenty of memory and enough CPu cycles to get work done in my CLI 
> consoles
> relatively comfortably.
> --
> B.H.
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 06:24:07PM -0500, Todor Fassl wrote:
>
> > Can someone explain this quote from the debian wiki on accessibility?
> >
> > In Debian Jessie with GNOME version >= 3.8, there is a mode called GNOME
> > classic. This one uses the GNOME shell directly to achieve GNOME 2 alike
> > user experience. When using startx, you can set up your .xinitrc as follows
> > to use this mode:
> >
> >
> >
> > It then goes on to give some code. What does it mean when using startx? Does
> > that mean you have to make your computer boot in character mode and run X
> > from the command line?
> >
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