Howdy Didier, Thanks for all the help. You put me on the right track for getting this working. It's all good now, sudo reads like a champ. Here is my .xinitrc file for anyone else who may be having this issue. This will probably be use for people running window managers like ratpoison, or for other desktops like xfce, lxde, etc. #!/bin/sh # # ~/.xinitrc # # Executed by startx (run your window manager from here) dbus-launch [[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge -I$HOME ~/.Xresources if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f" done unset f fi #accessibility for original load export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge export GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY=1 export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 export QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON=1 export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS exec ratpoison Thanks, Storm On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 04:46:31PM +0200, Didier Spaier wrote:
Howdy, sudo is not set up by default in Slint, but I tried this instead, typed in mate-terminal: su -c pluma didier # I give didier's password su -c pluma # I give root's password su - -c pluma # I give root's password In all cases orca speaks. Only caveat: it doesn't always spell the first character I type, but if I press Ctr+f to open its file menu then Esc to go back to the editor area then Orca spells all my typing and speaks the text I have typed. When I want have orca running after having started a graphical environment I type orca-on. The script /usr/bin/orca-on is attached as well as my current .xinirc. Thus should answer your last questions. Have a good day, Didier On 04/10/2019 15:54, Storm Dragon wrote:Howdy, I may be missing something with my setup. No sudo application reads at all. Interestingly, other people I have talked to, one using Mate, says that orca does not speak with sudo pluma. Another person also said that sudo applications did speak, until they tried pluma, then it didn't speak. After that, no other sudo app spoke either until they did a sudo killall -9 orca. After that, sudo apps worked again, and strangely pluma now speaks with sudo too. That did not help in my case. So, I must be missing something that needs to be exported, or a package, or something. I found this on the debian wiki which is recommended for getting orca running in other desktops: eval $(dbus-launch); export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID I tried it here, but still nothing. Is this actually important, and should I add it to my .xinitrc? Is there somewhere that lists everything that needs to be exported and everything that nees to be added to get the best a11y experience with Orca? Thanks, Storm On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 08:19:03PM -0400, Orca-list wrote:Still works here, ArchLinuxARM with MATE. But I think something was done to make it work, as I can remember some time back in old MATE around 1.14 when opening up pluma for example with sudo didn't speak. Opening it up with something like sudo -E may work in situations where a GTK application is run as root from a terminal using sudo, as that is supposed to preserve the environment, but this hasn't been necessary for some time. Imetumwa kutoka viakula vyangu _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html_______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
#!/bin/sh
# This script enable the orca screen reader for the user who runs it.
if [ "$(id -u)" = "0" ]; then
echo "Start a graphical environment as root with speech is not advisable."
echo "Please run this script as regular user."
exit
fi
if [ -f ~/.profile ]; then
(cd ~
sed "
/SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN/d
/GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY/d
/GTK_MODULES/d
/QT_ACCESSIBILITY/d
/QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON/d
/startx_output/d" .profile > .dummyprofile
mv .dummyprofile .profile
)
fi
cat <<-EOF >>~/.profile
export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN="gtk"
export GTK_MODULES="gail:atk-bridge" # for GTK2
export GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY=1
export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 # for QT4
export QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON=1 # for QT5
alias startx="/usr/bin/startx 1>.startx_output 2>.startx_errors"
EOF
if [ -f ~/.config/autostart/startorca.desktop ]; then
(cd ~/.config/autostart/
sed -i "s/Hidden.*/Hidden=false/" startorca.desktop
)
gsettings set org.mate.interface accessibility true 2>/dev/null
echo "Orca has been enabled for user $(id -nu)."
else
echo "File ~/.config/autostart/startorca.desktop not found."
fi
#!/bin/sh
userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
# merge in defaults and keymaps
if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi
if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi
if [ -f $userresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $userresources
fi
if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
xmodmap $usermodmap
fi
# Start the window manager:
if [ -x /usr/bin/ck-launch-session ]; then
LAUNCH="ck-launch-session"
else
LAUNCH=""
fi
if [ -x /usr/bin/dbus-launch ]; then
LAUNCH="$LAUNCH dbus-launch"
fi
/usr/bin/setxkbmap
exec $LAUNCH /usr/bin/mate-session
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