Re: [orca-list] I'm getting real tired of apps run as root being inaccessible

[Luke Yelavich <luke yelavich canonical com>]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:21:20PM AEST, kendell clark wrote:
> hi
> I read your email again and I must've missed the stuff about qt the last
> time.
>
> Yes, I have run the installer as root. I can't get much past the
> keyboard layout section before the installer figures  out it's not run
> as root but yes, it's completely accessible when run as a normal user.
> Well, as accessible as qt apps ever get, flat review by word doesn't
> seem to work but other than that it works fine.

Ok, great.

> So now I'm confused. It looks like there is a bug somewhere after all.
> If all gnome and unity do is load gtk modules, that means that apps that
> don't use gtk would still be inaccessible. I have tried the installer
> and other qt apps in gnome and they are inaccessible when run as root.

Did you make sure QT_ACCESSIBILITY is set to 1?

> Oops, sorry about that I keep forgetting to indent, I know that makes it
> easier for you to read my mails. So now I'm wondering if maybe it's an
> at-spi problem? sudo -E works for apps like gparted, but it doesn't work
> on the installer and mumble, and apps run as qt. Which means it can't be
> an at-spi problem or gtk apps wouldn't work but maybe qt?

Ok, does mumble use Qt 4 or Qt5? I think QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 works for both Qt 
versions, but it maybe 4 only, can't remember.

Luke