Re: [orca-list] Configuring LightDM

[Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud hypra fr>]

Le 03/05/2017 à 23:27, Storm Dragon a écrit :
> Howdy,

Howdy Storm

> I am playing around with session managers. I have heard that lightdm can
> be configured to launch orca at the login screen. I installed it and did
> what I thought was the correct configuration with the gtk greeter.

Have you followed these instructions ? 
https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#lightdm_accessibility

> Further more, orca will not start while
> in mate either.

What is your environment (distro, mate version, orca version) ? How do 
you run Orca ? Are you using the alt+win+s keyboard shortcut ?
If you install Debian with braille or speech when you check Mate as 
desktop everything will be correctly configured automatically.

> When tryuing to run it from the terminal, there is a
> long list of errors, I'm not sure what they are because there's no
> screen reader, and I had a very young helper reading lol.

You could use the TTY to check what's happening.

Best regards.
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Alex ARNAUD
Visual-Impairment Project Manager
Hypra - "Humanizing technology"