Re: [orca-list] orca can't talk in programs that run with root privileges

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
Not to complain, but this doesn't always work. Both kyle's and all of
your suggestions have been  very helpful. However, I'd like to simply be
able to launch an app menu item, EG gparted, enter in the password and
have it speak. Gnome shell somehow gets around this, but no other
desktop besides unity can make use of this. If you type gksu, and then
check the "preserve environment" check box it will work for that one
program, but not all programs work even when launched via gksu or sudo
-E. Calamares, the qt5 distro agnostic  installer, is one of them. The
reason I'm being so persistent about this is that I'm getting a lot of
pressure from the manjaro people to drop their old installer. This is a
good thing to do, because their old installer has a lot of bugs
including accessibility bugs that haven't been fixed. I'm going to, if
at all possible, switch over to calamares for the next version of sonar,
due out in either september or october. The manjaro people have asked me
whether launching orca as root would work, but while orca will start as
root, pulse audio then blocks it, so there's no sound. There has got to
be some way of fixing this. I don't mind telling everyone that I'm
growing tired of banging my head against this wall. New sonar users
email me to complain about this weekly. You can guess the comparisons I
get to other programs and operating systems, I'm not going to start an
OS war hear. Can anyone think of anything?
Thanks
Kendell Clark


Kyle wrote:
> sudo -E <program> <arguments>
> from a mate-terminal will do pretty much the same thing. e.g.
> sudo -E pluma /etc/pacman.conf
> I do this with pluma rather frequently when I want to edit system
> files. Hope it helps.
> Sent from the dawn
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