[BRLTTY] Still no luckin starting Orca on Ubuntu

Jason White jason at jasonjgw.net
Sun Mar 31 19:46:57 EDT 2013


John J. Boyer <john.boyer at abilitiessoft.com> wrote:
> Sorry to continue an off-topic subject, but I've tried other places, 
> including a Ubuntu suppost list, with no results. The following commands 
> were sent to me for making Gnome start Orca when it starts itself.
> 
> 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
> 
> I get the error message "No protocol specified." 

You shouldn't have to go through complex steps just to run Orca on a properly
installed system.
> 
> The real culprit in all this is gnomme.org which is blocking the 
> outgoing mail server provided by my web-hosting company, thus preventing 
> me from posting to the Orca list.

What happens if you do the outgoing SMTP yourself, from your own local
machine? Have you reported this to your hosting provider?



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