Re: [orca-list] orca and gdm no longer playing nicely together

[Alex ARNAUD <aarnaud hypra fr>]

    If you could, I advise you to switch to lightdm, it works really
    smoothly from my experience using it with Orca for launching the
    Mate desktop.

Le 15/12/2020 à 10:22, John Covici a écrit :

> Hi.  After my last update orca master and gdm are not working
> together.  When I start gdm 3.36.4 orca does not start.  If I run it
> by hand in another terminal as root with DISPLAY=:0, I get the
> following traceback:
>
> [1] 4188516
> root@ccs:~ # Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/orca", line 44, in <module>
>       from orca import orca
> 	   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 73,
> 	   in <module>
> 	       from . import mouse_review
> 		    File
> 		    "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/orca/mouse_review.py",
> 		    line 620, in <module>
> 		        reviewer = MouseReviewer()
> 			     File
> 				"/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/orca/mouse_review.py",
> 				line 339, in __init__
> 				    seat = Gdk.Display.get_default_seat(display)
> 				    TypeError: Argument 0 does not allow None as a
> 				    value
>
> [1]  + exit 1     orca
>
> If I log in "blind" then orca works normally.
>
> I am using the infamous gtk+3.24.24, if that makes any difference and
> gdm 3.36.4.  The orca master is as of
> commit ee411f2f0ef9e9908ad7a48f4f4083e662b5b67e (HEAD -> master,
> origin/master, origin/HEAD)
>
> I also get from the kernel
>
> Dec 15 04:15:44 ccs.covici.com kernel: proc: Bad value for 'hidepid'
>
> Any assistance on this one would be appreciated.
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