Re: [orca-list] Can't get Orca start in a graphical environment started

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

Could it be lightdm and gdm conflict with respect to screen reader 
accessibility?

On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, Didier Spaier wrote:

> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 10:04:52
> From: Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>
> To: Peter V?gner <pvdeejay gmail com>,
>     Samuel THIBAULT <samuel thibault ens-lyon org>
> Cc: orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
> Subject: [orca-list] Can't get Orca start in a graphical environment started
>
> Hello,
>
> In Slint gdm speaks, but if I start a desktop session from there orca
> doesn't start in the desktop because the connection with at-spi2 through
> dbus is refused, possibly still owned by lightdm (but even when
> ps -ef |grep at-spi
> comes empty, as it is the case  after:
> session-setup-script=pkill -u lightdm at-spi
> when trying to start I still get this answer:
> cut here
> didier[~]$ orca
>
> ** (orca:2219): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket 
> /tmp/dbus-4zxEfROlmH: Connection refused
>
> ** (orca:2219): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket 
> /tmp/dbus-4zxEfROlmH: Connection refused
>
> ** (orca:2219): ERROR **: AT-SPI: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus. Is at-spi-bus-launcher running?
> Trace/breakpoint trap
> didier[~]$
> cut here
>
> Currently I have lightdm-1.18.3 and lightdm-gtk-greeter-2.0.3 but I
> have also tried lightdm-1.22.0.
>
> There is a similar issue mentioned in this thread:
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2015-December/msg00012.html
>
> I have tried several things, to no avail, including the patch proposed
> by Samuel attached to this comment:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1366534/comments/16
> and also writing in lightdm.conf
> xserver-share=false
>
> I would be grateful to any pointers to "something that works" which can
> be based on any lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter versions, possibly with
> additional patches, wrapper or other scripts to call from lightdm.conf,
> including a properly set up lightdm.conf.
> Only restriction: we don't have systemd in Slint, but I doubt that come
> into play.
>
> And also to anything that could help a non-coder debugging.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Didier
>
>
>
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