Jason White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On my desktop I have an up to date installation of the Debian Sid Gnome > packages. On my laptop, I have just freshly installed X and Gnome, also from > Debian Sid. Orca is installed and configured in both cases. > > On the desktop, if I run startx, Gnome starts up but Orca doesn't, until I > type Alt-F2 orca <cr>
I guess you are using startx to circumvent the fact that gdm does not play well with Orca yet? I've to admit I haven't used startx with Orca since a long while, I always prefered to use gdm, and either configure autologin or blindly type my login information. > On the laptop, sometimes Orca starts, but other times a message is displayed > stating that I have requested assistive technology support for this session, > but the AT-SPI registry isn't running. I have seen this message in other contexts as well. If a previous at-spi daemon hangs after you logout and log back in, the new at-spi can't start. a "killall -9 at-spi-registryd" or equivalent usually helped. > Pressing enter does not clear this message, which can only be done > by someone else using a pointing device. Once the message is > cleared, though, Orca runs successfully. This, I haven't seen yet. If I managed to get this message cleared, Orca didn't start up, I had to kill the rogue at-spi-registryd and log back in anew. > I think this is a timing problem of some sort, involving at-spi-registryd, at > least on the laptop. > > In case it is relevant, the laptop has a single-core AMD x86_64 CPU; the > desktop has two dual-core Intel Xeon CPUs. > > I realize this could well be a dsitribution-specific issue, as Debian is still > migrating from Gnome 2.20 to Gnome 2.22. At least the accessibility related components as far as I am aware of them are all updated to GNOME 2.22 branch. -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/>
