Re: [orca-list] Admin Features for Slackware Users

["Alastair Irving" <alastair irving sjc ox ac uk>]

Have you tried running the program you want from a gnome-terminal using
sudo?  I always do this on ubuntu rather than trying to use the admin menu,
as it tends to be more reliable.  


Alastair 

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From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
Behalf Of Steve Holmes
Sent: 20 May 2008 06:01
To: Orca E-mail List
Subject: [orca-list] Admin Features for Slackware Users


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I thought I would try and apply some of the methods outlined in the wiki
page for system administrative functions and the notes recently placed on
this list.  Namely the .orbit file in /root home directory and the update to
/etc/sudoers file.  But alas, it doesn't work for me.  I get a password
prompt when I go into any of the functions off the admin menu but upon
entering the root password, all goes silent. As soon as I exit that
function, then I get Orca back.  Once I tried to start Orca from within that
function and Orca started but then when I alt tabbed back and forth, I would
hear that admin function was "Inaccessible". Orca actually spoke
"Inaccessible." But if I try and alt tab to that task anyway, it just goes
silent. I can alt tab away from that silent task and then I have speech
again.  I also tried for the heck of it to run "sudo orca" from an alt-F2
run box but that went silent and I had to restart X to get out of that one.
I also cannot run startx from a root session either.  I don't know enough
about gnome to understand why it works from a normal user but not from root.
Seems strange to me.

Anyway, are there any Slackware users out there being able to use any of the
admin functions from Orca?  It would appear that the instructions and hipe
about accessing admin stuff only works for Ubuntu for some dumb reason.

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