Re: Problem starting Gnome with assistive technology support and Orca
Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> writes:
> On my desktop I have an up to date installation of the Debian Sid Gnome
> packages. On my laptop, I have just freshly installed X and Gnome, also from
> Debian Sid. Orca is installed and configured in both cases.
>
> On the desktop, if I run startx, Gnome starts up but Orca doesn't, until I
> type Alt-F2 orca <cr>
I guess you are using startx to circumvent the fact that gdm
does not play well with Orca yet? I've to admit I haven't used startx
with Orca since a long while, I always prefered to use gdm, and
either configure autologin or blindly type my login information.
> On the laptop, sometimes Orca starts, but other times a message is displayed
> stating that I have requested assistive technology support for this session,
> but the AT-SPI registry isn't running.
I have seen this message in other contexts as well. If a previous at-spi
daemon hangs after you logout and log back in, the new at-spi can't
start. a "killall -9 at-spi-registryd" or equivalent usually helped.
> Pressing enter does not clear this message, which can only be done
> by someone else using a pointing device. Once the message is
> cleared, though, Orca runs successfully.
This, I haven't seen yet. If I managed to get this message cleared,
Orca didn't start up, I had to kill the rogue at-spi-registryd and
log back in anew.
> I think this is a timing problem of some sort, involving at-spi-registryd, at
> least on the laptop.
>
> In case it is relevant, the laptop has a single-core AMD x86_64 CPU; the
> desktop has two dual-core Intel Xeon CPUs.
>
> I realize this could well be a dsitribution-specific issue, as Debian is still
> migrating from Gnome 2.20 to Gnome 2.22.
At least the accessibility related components as far as I am
aware of them are all updated to GNOME 2.22 branch.
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