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

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On lun., 2014-10-20 at 22:41 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 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.

When you brought the subject on pkg-xfce list, the plan was to force
installation of a11y packages (through dependency list), but not having
them started until the users choses it.
> 
> > >   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.

What about the question just above?

-- 
Yves-Alexis
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