Re: [orca-list] Orca and mate

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

yes, there are plenty of howtos around you can also look on Vinux wiki, and whatever the raspberrypi wiki is 
called for instrustions.
You'll hav problems with anything earlier than 1.8 packages, and you need to have at least one gtk module 
exported among other things. 
The exact commands are in both of the wiki articles I mention, as there are a couple others that you'll need 
for some stuff. 

Many of us, including myself are using mate, either as primary desktop, or sometimes, including myself.
The only major bug effecting mate at this point as far as I'm concerned is the fact that only one panel can 
be read by orca, so you should delete the 
bottom panel, and perhaps move the remaining panel to the bottom or a side and then put any applets or 
launchers you want there.
Enjoy, it is one of the best all around Desktops with orca. 
There's another work around here if you are not using latest orca, but I recommend using 3.14 or master 
branch if you are using mate. If you can't 
update to one of these orca releases, then you are probably using something where latest mate is not 
available. 
Not sure about debian stable, but testing should let you get new mate, as will latest ubuntu, 14.04. Arch and 
other non-debian distros also have mate 
1.8.
 
On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 11:00:57AM -0400, Guy Schlosser wrote:
> Thanks Alex, I just saw your message.  I will give that a try.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Guy
>
> On 10/9/2014 10:23 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I saw quite  a few postings giving instructions on how to get this going last month and in August.  You 
> > might want to go to the list's archives at live.gnome.org  and do a search.  You are bound to find what 
> > you need.  I think it was Burt Henry and Kyle who wrote these up.  From what I recall, you have to copy 
> > and rename a file that Orca uses to get Gnome talking but I don't remember what file it is or even where 
> > it is located in the Orca directory.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Alex M
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Guy Schlosser
> > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 1:03 AM
> > To: Orca-list
> > Subject: [orca-list] Orca and mate
> >
> > Hey all, has anyone gotten orca to work with Mate successfully? I installed the mate-desktop-environment 
> > package, and whenever I launch orca while in the mate session, it says screen reader on but then silence. 
> > I am running ubuntu 14.10, any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Guy
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
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