Re: [orca-list] new display manager, slick greeter

[Werwoelfchen <ddf051 wolf googlemail com>]

Hi,


Orca 3.26 has the same turning-off problem in Lightdm under 16..04.


Greetings, Wolfram


Am 13.03.2018 um 12:47 schrieb kendell clark:
> 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