Re: [orca-list] problem with orca/gnome sound

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,
If you can hear "Screen reader on" message just after you login into 
gnome, then I assume one little think is happening.
In this state nothing has the system focus thus pressing any keys e.g. 
ctrl key, orca+t for date time, any letter keys will produce no speech 
output from orca since at this time orca is not yet notified of these 
keypresses.
To fix that just press your super key also known as the windows key or 
alt+F1 keyboard shortcut. As you press this you should hear orca saying 
"Window" and from here you can work as normal. You have just expanded a 
gnome overview so you can for example start typing part of your keyword 
e.g. thu for thunderbird, ge for gedit and similar.
Or you can press ctrl+alt+tab in order to land so called top pannel 
where you can move left to right between sections and up / down inside 
each section. E.G. modern gnome apps display their menubar in this top 
pannel, there is calendar and all the so called pannel indicators 
including volume control, network connections, session controls and similar.

Hopefully this is your situation as this is really easy to pass over as 
long as you know it.

From my experience this is a thing which is not a big deal for long 
time linux users but is verry likelly to piss new comers off.

Greetings

Peter


On 11.08.2015 at 12:14 Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
> Hi.
> Ok, I changed the speech dispatcher configuration as you told me.
> But I still get no sound at all from gnome.
> Just screen reader loaded.
> I run orca --text-setup, and that works.
> But after that orca just gives me an error. "unable to connect to the desktop.
> Should I need to reinstall debian all over again to get this working?
> /Kristoffer
>
> 2015-08-10 22:04 GMT+02:00, Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>:
> > Your problem is with speech dispatcher.  You have to tell it that you are
> > using alsa as the sound output and not pulse audio which is the default.
> >  From your console session with Speakup, type spd-conf and press enter.
> > Then, follow the prompts for a user-specific setup.  When you get to the
> > sound output question, type alsa and then hit enter.  Proceed through the
> > remaining options.  Once you are done, orca should talk in Gnome.
> >
> > Alex M
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Kristoffer
> > Gustafsson
> > Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 2:49 PM
> > To: orca-list gnome org
> > Subject: [orca-list] problem with orca/gnome sound
> >
> > Hi.
> > I installed Debian Linux some Days ago.
> > There are no sounds at all in gnome.
> > I didn't want pulse audio, so I removed that.
> > I can get alsa to work in the console.
> > But not in gnome.
> > There was no sound when I had pulse audio installed either.
> > I thought that the problem was orca so I ran orca --text-setup.
> > The only message I got was the question if braille should be activated.
> > That was the only question.
> > Shouldn't there be more?
> > At least it was Before.
> > What can be wrong here?
> > /Kristoffer
> >
> > --
> > Kristoffer Gustafsson
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