[Pkg-xfce-devel] Getting orca started in lightdm

Samuel Thibault sthibault at debian.org
Mon Oct 20 20:41:27 UTC 2014


Yves-Alexis Perez, le Mon 20 Oct 2014 22:34:22 +0200, a écrit :
> On lun., 2014-10-20 at 00:21 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > lightdm will apparently be the default dm for non-gnome DE such as
> > XFCE, LXDE, MATE.  ATM it never auto-start Orca, some code would be
> > needed for this.
> 
> So much for not starting that automatically, then. Did the plan change?

?
I don't understand what you mean here.

> >   No keyboard shortcut is available either to start
> > it by hand.  I'm thinking about using the greeter-wrapper hook for
> > this: the gnome-orca package would provide the following script as
> > /usr/bin/orca-wrapper:
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > orca --replace --no-setup --disable splash-window &
> > exec $*
> > 
> > and then the user can easily use it in lightdm.conf:
> > 
> > greeter-wrapper=orca-wrapper
> 
> It looks quite awful actually, but I don't know what you want/need to
> achieve here. I guess that this is not about the user session but really
> about the greeter? Then you might want to investigate
> greeter-setup-script instead.

No, since greeter-setup-script runs as root, the screen reading won't
work.

> > which could be automatically configured by the debian installer when
> > installation was done with accessibility enabled.  Tests show that it
> > works nicely.
> 
> So the plan is actually to have an option in d-i for that?

Yes.

Otherwise the user will have a nicely accessible d-i, and at reboot end
up into a non-accessible login banner.

Samuel



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