Re: How to have Orca in LightDM?

2023-08-19 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Lightdm shouldn't run as root in any case. It should run as user lightdm, which is a normal user that can get Pulseaudio and speech-dispatcher working. Hope this helps. ~Kyle ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com

Re: How to have Orca in LightDM?

2023-08-19 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Have you run spdconf yet? If you do, likely you will do well to run all diagnostics. You may also want to run pulseaudio --cleanupshm. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Sat, 19 Aug

Re: How to have Orca in LightDM?

2023-08-19 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, I initially wrote the lines a11-states=+reader and reader=orca into the lightdm-gtk-greetter file, but orca didn't come up. then I started trying some things here and there, and I ended up discovering an interesting fact. when I start the display-manager service immediately after powering

Re: How to have Orca in LightDM?

2023-08-19 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi I advise setting the lightdm configurations in /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf instead. Make sure you have the following two lines under the [greeter] section to have orca start automatically at login screen: [greeter] a11y-states=+reader reader=orca I think that will do. On

Re: How to have Orca in LightDM?

2023-08-18 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
did you use: exec "/usr/bin/orca" to start orca in that file? -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Fri, 18 Aug 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hi, according to the

How to have Orca in LightDM?

2023-08-18 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, according to the Gentoo wiki page for LightDM, it scans and executes the contents of ~/xprofile on start, so I've put some accessility related variables and the orca command in it, but orca is not being brought up; it only comes after login, when Mate starts. How can I have speech during