Re: [orca-list] Orca no longer talking in ArchLinux Mate.

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,

Anyway to try answerring your question.
I think orca will recreate the configuration folder with all the files 
inside as soon as you change some of the screen reader preferences 
through the corresponding dialog.

Trying to answer as much as possible from the questions we are asking 
here might help you figure the issue:
- Do you have sound within some of the mate apps?
- Are you using pulseaudio?
- If not have you configured speech-dispatcher to use alsa bipassing 
pulse audio?
- Can you try running orca from within mate terminal not pure text 
console also possibly adding --debug argument? With the --debug argument 
orca should generate a *.out file in your home directory you can inspect 
or pastebin.
- Do you have talking login screen? I.E. when you are logging in to your 
graphical session are you using orca and is it working like you are 
expecting it to?

Greetings

Peter

On 01.12.2015 at 18:57 B. Henry wrote:
> First thing is speech-dispatcher.
> Did you configure speech-dispatcher?
> Are you using pulse audio, or is this a pure alsa installation of mate?
> Also you are typing much more than you need to to check for your orca process.
> Try
> pgrep orca
> There is also pkill which saves you from searching for a process number before killing off a problematic 
> process. It can be run with the codes that kill
> understands, e.g. pkill -9 someprocess uses the agressive -9 signal instead of shutting down the process 
> normally.
> Is your sound working correctly in consoles?