[orca-list] new display manager, slick greeter

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi all

Ubuntu mate 18.04, the new lts, named bionic beaver, is switching it's 
display manager, login screen, from lightdm's gtk greeter to one called 
slick-greeter, which is lightdm's unity greeter forked and  with all the 
unity dependencies and hard coded stuff removed. It is accessible out of 
the box with both orca and onboard. There is only one minor problem with 
current orca, 3.27. Orca will sometimes turn off immediately after 
turning on. Sometimes it resolves itself after being toggled a couple of 
times, sometimes not. This happens both with slick greeter and lightdm's 
gtk greeter. The shortcut to launch orca is the standard shortcut, 
alt+windows+s instead of f4, which I really like. It's also available in 
other linux distributions, including arch. One other minor issue with 
mate. This involves the indicator applet set for the mate panel. The 
menus do read with orca, that is, they are accessible, but they don't 
announce their names when you're scroling through them, with the 
exception of the system menu and the network menu, although the network 
menu only speaks if you're connected to a network, otherwise it just 
says "menu."  The indicator applet set is not ubuntu specific like I 
thought, it is included in mate's panel source code, available in any 
linux distribution if the right packages are installed.

Thanks

Kendell Clark


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