Re: [orca-list] Orca In Log-In Window

["John G. Heim" <jheim math wisc edu>]

    I think everything we say is going to be questionable because so
    much might have changed since 11.10. But I recently messed around
    with getting orca to start immediately at the end of an
    auto-install. I believe that in Ubuntu 19.10, you can make gdm start
    orca automatically by changing the default in the file
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications.gschema.xml
    and reinstalling gnome-settings-daemon. The reinstall seems to be
    necessary because the installation process creates a cache of the
    settings and does not re-read them at each boot.
    
    But that is for gdm. Ubuntu 11.10 might have been  using lightdm as
    the display manager. BTW, in case its not clear, the display manager
    is the name for the graphical login screen. You don't really need a
    display manager at all. In fact, there is at least one person on
    this list who strongly recommends against using a display manager. 
    I am neutral on that issue.
    
    On my system, to switch desktops, at the login screen, I select a
    user, it then prompts for a password. Instead of entering the
    password, I hit the tab key. First it goes to the cancel button and
    then a second tab gets me to the session settings menu. There I can
    select my desktop.

On 4/14/20 10:50 PM, Glenn K0LNY wrote:

Hi All,

So far I've gotten my netbook up to Ubuntu 11.10.

I haven't found a distro yet that will allow me to do some specific steps to get around the force PAE thing.

But I want to get rid of this Unity, and I think Gnome is somewhere on this computer, because I had it in Ubuntu 10, and then when I used the live Ubuntu to upgrade to 11.10, it put in Unity.

So I would like to log out and in the log-in window, see if I can select a different desktop.

But in the system settings, there is universal access, but nothing about starting Orca automatically, and nothing about running it in the log-in window.

I tried, and I was not able to get Orca talking once I logged out.

I tried calling it with alt F2, ctrl + S, alt Super S, and ctrl + alt + 1 and then typing orca and that did not work either.

If I can't get Orca to talk here, can anyone tell me the keyboard steps to select a different desktop?

I tried installing Gnome with

apt-get install gnome-desktop

and it did not find it.

 

Thanks for any assistance.

 

Glenn

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