[BRLTTY] OT: Starting Orca on Ubuntu 12.04.2

[John J. Boyer]

One last question. I got into a virtual console by typing alt-ctrl-f1. 
How do I get out of it and back to the desktop? Then hopefully I can 
start Orca by typing alt-F2 Orca . 

I'll try putting the commands given by Samuel into a script.

Thanks,
John

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:07:51AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> John J. Boyer, le Fri 29 Mar 2013 03:06:31 -0500, a écrit :
> > ctrl-alt-f1 worked, but Orca still says it cannot contact the desktop. 
> 
> As said before, if you just start it from ssh that won't work. Setting
> DISPLAY is not enough nowadays to get access to the desktop. Blame the
> dm for that new "idea" (gdm or kdm).
> 
> You thus have to start orca from the desktop itself. Doing it by hand is
> of course not convenient. I don't know if gnome people have introduced a
> shortcut to start it, it would have been a good idea. You can however
> configure gnome to start it automatically, from the accessibility
> control panel. You can do this from the command line too, for gnome 3 it
> should be working this way:
> 
> eval $(dbus-launch)
> export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID 
> GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications screen-reader-enabled true
> 
> Samuel
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