Hello, Actually there is an even easier way I have found. I stole it from the idea of installing ubuntu. Rather than enabling the root account, open a shell, switch to root (sudo su), killall orca, and then launch orca. This will start orca as root. you won't have speech just yet, so press ctrl+shift+t and type sudo su again so you become root. if you know the command or program name of a program that needs to run as root type it and press enter and orca will begin speaking the application. for example:
terminal tab one sudo su password: ******* orca then orca launches terminal tab two sudo su password: ********* gdmsetup then gdm starts this is only example you could have launched something else. when you want to go back to user just press the ctrl+pgup keys in the terminal (additional fn for laptops) and press control c and that will kill orca rerun orca by pressing alt+f2 and typing orca and you're back to where you started... Cody On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 09:16 -0500, Willie Walker wrote: > > I seem to remember from a posting back during last summer that it was > > proposed that work should be done on Ubuntu's Admin tools to increase their > > accessibility - has this started or been done? > > The work to make this happen is on going for GNOME 2.18 and requires > modification to several components. In the meantime, one way around > this issue is to enable the root account, and to allow the root user to > login to gnome. This can be accomplished as follows: > > 1) Set a password on the root account: > > sudo passwd root > > 2) Next, edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom and add the following line > under the [security] section: > > AllowRoot=true > > Reboot your system. Now, log in as root via a text console, and run orca > --setup. You're all done. When you want to administer your system > using GUI administration tools, you can now login to gnome as root and > run orca. > > For GNOME 2.18, I hope the situation will be much better. > > Hope this helps, > > Will > > > _______________________________________________ > Orca-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
