One last question. I got into a virtual console by typing alt-ctrl-f1. How do I get out of it and back to the desktop? Then hopefully I can start Orca by typing alt-F2 Orca .
I'll try putting the commands given by Samuel into a script. Thanks, John On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:07:51AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > John J. Boyer, le Fri 29 Mar 2013 03:06:31 -0500, a écrit : > > ctrl-alt-f1 worked, but Orca still says it cannot contact the desktop. > > As said before, if you just start it from ssh that won't work. Setting > DISPLAY is not enough nowadays to get access to the desktop. Blame the > dm for that new "idea" (gdm or kdm). > > You thus have to start orca from the desktop itself. Doing it by hand is > of course not convenient. I don't know if gnome people have introduced a > shortcut to start it, it would have been a good idea. You can however > configure gnome to start it automatically, from the accessibility > control panel. You can do this from the command line too, for gnome 3 it > should be working this way: > > eval $(dbus-launch) > export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID > GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications > screen-reader-enabled true > > Samuel > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] > For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
