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

[covici ccs covici com]

I am not sure whether if I used su I would get anything, I just know if
I log in as root it does work.  I run speech dispatcher system wide
using alsa.

Majid Hussain <mhussaincov93 gmail com> wrote:

> arr,
> so you think it is a pulseaudio thing then?
> which user does pulseaudio run by?
> if it runns via root then it may give us the answer if not if it is
> possable for it to run as root it may change something?
> just speculating you understand?
> to clarafye,
> running via alsa not pulseaudio makes it that you are able to runn
> programms as root with out any issues is this correct?
> ore am I miss reading things yet again?
>
> thanks,
> Majid Hussain
>
> On 13/07/2016, covici ccs covici com <covici ccs covici com> wrote:
> > I am not using pulse audio and what I do is log in as root from the gdm
> > screen.  I had to change a security setting to do this in
> > /etc/gdm/custom.conf if I remember correctly, but it  has worked for
> > me.  The vmware installer just asked for the root password and went off
> > to install its modules and was successful.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > 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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> >          John Covici
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         John Covici
         covici ccs covici com