[orca-list] For people missing Orca on Ubuntu Mate's login screen

[Rastislav Kish <rastislav kish protonmail com>]

Hello list,

I've just reinstalled my Ubuntu Mate to the latest LTS 22.04., and while
raging over being unable to get numlock to activate on the login screen,
I discovered:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/155679/how-to-enable-numlock-at-boot-time-for-login-screen


Search up arctic on the page to get to the post about overriding the
greeter's settings.

In the file, set screen-reader to true, and proceed according to
instructions.

Note: You don't need to use the other example assignments mentioned in
the post, I used the numlock one, but for now, I kept the ready sound
turned on and I neither have a need to change the background.


After a restart, or maybe even a logout, Orca should be launched on the
login screen as expected.


It works nicely on my machine. I had this trick in mind for longer time,
specifically since Peter Vágner made me aware on other mailing list that
greeters exist.

I realized this could work, but for some reason, I was unable to change
the screen-reader value through gsettings, even when I launched the
appropriate command as lightdm user.

Overriding the scheme was one of the workaround suggestions, and now I
found an example on how to do it.


Best regards


Rastislav