Re: [orca-list] Setting up Orca on ArchLinux
- From: Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>
- To: "Jeanette C." <julien mail upb de>
- Cc: Austin Seraphin <austin austinseraphin com>, "orca users' mailinglist" <orca-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: [orca-list] Setting up Orca on ArchLinux
- Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 18:56:51 +0200
Hello,
It looks you now have mate running.
I think I have a few comments in regard to your original question about gnome.
There are multiple ways you can launch a desktop enviromment two most common are that you can use xinit (running startx) command and the other is to use display manager started manually while setting things up and started as a systemd service when you have got it setup to your liking.
However even before figuring out how to start your desktop enviromment you might check if you have got installed all the packages usefull for running graphical desktop X.org and stuff...
Since Mate is working for you and Gnome is not or you are not sure it might be that you might be lacking user space drivers for your graphic card. See Driver installation part of the XOrg article on the Arch wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Driver_installation . If you have fairy recent onboard intel graphic, I think you have nothing to install as falling to kernel mode-setting driver is recommended. If you would like to read more on this, see Intel graphic article:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_graphics I think you now should have xorg-server and xorg-xinit and your xf86-<something> driver if you do have other than intel based graphic card on your system.
If you wish to start gnome via xinit then you can do the following
$ cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc
Edit ~/.xinitrc removing default apps such as xterm, xclock, twm and similar tweaking the exec line to start gnome
exec gnome-session
Now when you run startx gnome will launch on the tty where you have run startx from. Once gnome is running you can press alt+super+s to start / stop orca.
Another way is to start gnome by using its display manager gdm. Running systemctl start gdm as root or via sudo will start gdm and the greeter session showing login screen will be started on the first available tty. Once login screen is showing you can press alt+super+s to toggle orca. If it's not running super+alt+s will start it if it's running pressing super+alt+s will stop it. This is working the same way inn a greeter session and in a normal X / wayland session after logging in.
Some additional pointers related to the discussion.
There are two gnome related groups gnome and gnome-extra. Orca is in the gnome-extra group of packages. So If you have just ran
# pacman -S gnome
and you haven't installed orca in another step you might be missing it.
Gnome includes pulseaudio as a hard dependency meaning it requires some extra effort when you would like to disable it. If you have used speech-dispatcher on the text only console over alsa or libao or whatever, you might like to reconfigure it to use pulseaudio when running gnome with pulseaudio and orca.
On Arch linux since xorg 1.18 or so xorg-server is not running as root but as the logged in user when gnome is started via GDM instead. So to see its output you need to look into ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log.
If you run spd-say on a text console it will spawn a copy of speech-dispatcher if none is running by the logged in user what will in turn spawn pulseaudio if speech-dispatcher is configured to output via pulseaudio. So if you are used to use different users for logging to pure text console and for graphical sessions don't run spd-say or any other app that might spawn pulseaudio before running gnome. I know this sounds complicated so if you are unsure please just ask more.
Hopefully I haven't forgotten something very serious.
Greetings
Peter
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