Re: [orca-list] How do I get orca running on arch linux

[Jace Kattalakis <khalfang1366 gmail com>]

I just checked and for me the package is called orca, not screenreader 
unlesss that changed in the past few days? For reference, doing pacman 
-S orca pulled both it and speech-dispatcher in and set them up nicely.

Fwiw, here's the last bit of my .xinitrc. For context. startx looks for 
a .xinitrc in your home folder, if it can't find that, it goes to the 
system default one. So assuming you have a .xinitrc in your home folder, 
you want these two lines at the end of it...

exec orca &
exec mate-session

That should work. Once you've set Orca to autostart with startup apps 
then you can remove the exec orca & line and do startx again.

Personally I much prefer startx over messing with login managers, to my 
way of doing things startx is a lot neater and faster.

You can also automate startx after login as well, but personally I don't 
do that.

Jude DaShiell wrote:
> twm may be blocking orca, you may want to uninstall that.  First check for
> a package called screen-reader.  If found, that's orca on archlinux.
> Next, configure startx so it starts mate.  Next run startx then hit f4
> once.  Finally alt+f2 then type screen-reader --replace and increase the
> volume on speakers or plug in headphones and see what happens.
>
>
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2022, pranav techesoterica com wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > How do I get  orca running on arch Linux?
> >
> > I have installed the mate and mate-extra package. I have the xorg, xinit,
> > xorg-xclock and xterm packages installed. I have also installed twm.
> >
> > I also installed orca with sudo pacman -S orca
> > LightDM is also installed.
> >
> > Having said the above, I seem to be stuck with twm where I am getting a
> > bunch of messages about missing fonts for character sets despite installing
> > a bunch of fonts.
> >
> > Pranav
> >
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