Re: [orca-list] Orca not speaking in VMware Player screen

[Nick Wood <nick microlitesoftware co uk>]

On 24/07/17 04:11, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> I recently installed Ubuntu 16.04 on a new laptop. Everything has been 
> going fine until this weekend when I installed VMware Player 12. Now 
> whenever I start VMware Player 12, Orca goes silent when I alt+tab into 
> the VMware Player window. I didn't have this problem on Vinux 5. I've 
> Googled around a bit, but I haven't found anything yet. I also asked 
> over on the Vinux support list. Anyone got any ideas, pointers or tips?

I always run into the same issue on Fedora.

I believe the problem is down to VMWare shipping their own copy of 
various libraries, and if they don't match the system versions, Orca 
doesn't say anything.

I use the following commands on Fedora to get VMWare speaking - must be 
run as root:

cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib
for mylib in $(ls /usr/lib64/*5000*); do /bin/cp -afv $mylib $(basename 
$mylib .5000.3 )/$(basename $mylib .5000.3 ); done

You may be able to adapt the above to work on Ubuntu - though check the 
versions of the libraries as they will probably not be 5000.3.

Also backup the /usr/lib/vmware/lib directory first in case things go wrong.

Regards,

Nick