Re: [orca-list] Lightdm configuration to use orca on Arch with Mate desktop.

[John Covici <covici ccs covici com>]

OK, I have installed lightdm on my gentoo system because gdm keeps
crashing my system altogether.  What do I need to change to make the
greeter accessible?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 13:56:47 -0500,
Kyle via orca-list wrote:
> Actually as far as I am aware, both greeters use gtk. Slick
> greeter is the greeter used I believe by Mint, and Fedora's MATE
> spin is also using it. Slick greeter allows you to configure it
> to start orca using its standard alt+super+s shortcut, whereas
> gtk greeter uses f4 I believe it is. The problem is that gtk
> greeter still needs some additional configuration in order for
> the screen reader to work correctly; that is to say I wasn't able
> to get gtk greeter speaking by simply pressing the alt+f4
> shortcut. I still had to reconfigure
> /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf in order to get it
> speaking. There are also some differences in the layouts,
> although once you get either one speaking, both work well with
> Orca.
>
> ~Kyle
>
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