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

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

As an aside, gdm-2.20.11, which is ten and a half years old is fully 
accessible with Orca.

Newer is not always better...

Cheers, Didier

On 16/12/2020 14:23, Alex ARNAUD via orca-list wrote:
> 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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