On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 19:11:09 +0100, Bernhard Übelacker wrote: > I guess this happens because of using another dbus process. > When using the already running dbus it seemed to work immediately: > > $ sudo -u Debian-gdm bash -c 'export > DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/$(id -u "Debian-gdm")/bus; > GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications > screen-reader-enabled true'
I would be very surprised if this was considered to be a correct way to configure gdm. Instead, please edit /etc/gdm3/greeter.dconf-defaults to add something like this (untested): [org/gnome/desktop/a11y/applications] screen-reader-enabled=true If this is indeed the correct configuration option, we can add it, commented-out, in the example file provided with gdm3. If you have successfully set the setting in dconf via a complicated command-line involving sudo, dbus, dconf and gsettings, you will need to undo that change by using "gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications screen-reader-enabled" (with whatever wrapper commands you used for "gsettings set"), which will reset it to the modified default from /etc/gdm3/greeter.dconf-defaults. > https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#gdm_accessibility This starts with information about Debian 5 'lenny', a release from 2009 that reached the end of its support lifetime in 2012, so I suspect it would greatly benefit from being rewritten by someone who knows about accessibility to concentrate on versions that are currently supported. smcv