[Bug 1231091] Re: Screenreader starts, but does not work with installer (ubiquity) in live session

2021-08-28 Thread Gordon N. Squash
** Merge proposal linked: https://code.launchpad.net/~thesquash/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+git/ubiquity/+merge/407632 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1231091 Title: Screenreader star

[Bug 1231091] Re: Screenreader starts, but does not work with installer (ubiquity) in live session

2021-08-24 Thread Gordon N. Squash
I'm pretty sure I discovered the bug, and I think I know how to rectify it too. Please note that this was a tricky bug to find and it made my head spin for a while; it was only recently when I figured this out from start to end. Here's what I know now: I discovered that Ubiquity's greeter (`maybe

[Bug 1231091] Re: Screenreader starts, but does not work with installer (ubiquity) in live session

2021-08-21 Thread Gordon N. Squash
It's been well over a month since I last reported on this, so I think it's fine time I reported about the latest on the subject. My above comment was mostly correct and slightly wrong. Interestingly, stock Ubuntu 21.10 does not use Wayland (on my setup, at least, with Intel integrated graphics);

[Bug 1231091] Re: Screenreader starts, but does not work with installer (ubiquity) in live session

2021-07-01 Thread Gordon N. Squash
Regarding @hellsworth's observation (post # 11): Though this observation may well lead us down the correct path, I strongly believe both run as the superuser. Here's why: For the record, the MATE desktop's window manager is Marco; the "window manager" on stock Ubuntu is Mutter since stock Ubuntu

[Bug 1930312] Re: USB disks and SD cards mount for wrong user

2021-05-31 Thread Gordon N. Squash
For the record, this is not specific to Ubuntu or Ubuntu MATE at all -- I see this on Gentoo regularly, for example. It seems to be caused by a race condition in Caja and UDisks which didn't appear until UDisks started mounting volumes under user-specific subdirectories of `/media` -- so for examp