Bug#683230: gnome-settings-daemon: Problem it Universal Access tab

[Jason White]

Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <mengualjeanphi at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> To have orca as automatic started application at the gnome starting, I
> don't find any solution via the GUI. So I did the cp suggested, and I
> realised that ~/.config/autostart doesn't exist by default and needs to
> be created by hand. Once done, indeed, it works and bug has a
> workaround.

To narrow this down further, could you try editing
/etc/xdg/autostart/orca-autostart.desktop
and replace the lines
Exec=orca --no-setup --disable main-window,splash-window --enable
speech,braille
NoDisplay=true
with the line
Exec=orca --replace

then move ~/.config/autostart/orca.desktop out of the way and enable Orca as a
screen reader, then see if the bug still occurs.

The difference between running Orca as an autostart application on the desktop
and enabling it as a screen reader, as I understand it, is that in the latter
case /etc/xdg/autostart/orca-autostart.desktop is run, which has the extra
command line arguments as shown above.

If you can run Orca from /etc/xdg/autostart/orca-autostart.desktop without the
extra options and if the bug doesn't occur then, it's an Orca bug that should
be pushed upstream, in my judgment.