Re: [orca-list] Orca and Vmware Workstation 12

[covici ccs covici com]

For installation, I never use the ui, there are instructions to do it
from a regular virtual console, not an X terminal.

Bart Bunting <bart bunting net au> wrote:

> Very,
>
> Had someone with eyes check.
>
>
> Kind regards
> John Heim <john johnheim net> writes:
>
> > How sure are you that it's not in the dialog boxasking you for your 
> > password so it can build the kernel modules?
> > It's been a while since I messed round with vmware but it also used to 
> > ask for a license key. The debian wiki used to have instructions for 
> > installing the license key from a command prompt. You can google that. 
> > As far as the dialog box for compiling the kernel modules, I used to get 
> > past that by running vmware the first time logged in as root at the 
> > console. It would still recognize that the kernel modules needed to be 
> > compiled even though there was no GUI. Once the kernel modules are 
> > compiled, you can go back to running it from the GUI as a regular user.
> >
> > I've switched to virtualbox. The virtualbox GUI has accessibility 
> > problems but it has  a really nice command line interface. I just have 
> > all the commands in a script and just last night, I created a Windows vm 
> > in about 20 minutes and 19 minutes of that was installing Windows.
> > regular user.
> >
> > On 11/18/2015 11:07 PM, Bart Bunting wrote:
> > > Hmm,
> > >
> > > So is there anyone out there using 12?
> > >
> > > Is there anything I can check/test to see why it doesn't speak at all?
> > >
> > > Even the menus don't speak.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > >
> > > Bart
> > >
> > > covici ccs covici com writes:
> > >
> > > > Workstation 11  worked fine with orca, but I never paid the freight to
> > > > upgrade to 12.
> > > >
> > > > Bart Bunting <bart bunting net au> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi there,
> > > > >
> > > > > Has anyone had luck with vmware workstation and orca?
> > > > >
> > > > > I am running on a debian system but get no feedback from orca when I
> > > > > start vmware.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is this a known issue?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Kind regards
> > > > > Bart
> > > > > -- 
> > > > >
> > > > > Bart Bunting
> > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > orca-list mailing list
> > > > > orca-list gnome org
> > > > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > > > > Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> > > > > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> > > > > GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> > > > > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > > > -- 
> > > > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> > > > How do
> > > > you spend it?
> > > >
> > > >           John Covici
> > > >           covici ccs covici com
> > > Bart
> >
> > -- 
> > John Heim
> > john johnheim com
> Bart
> -- 
>
> Bart Bunting

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