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

[sthibault at debian.org (Samuel Thibault)]

Hello,

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.  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

which could be automatically configured by the debian installer when
installation was done with accessibility enabled.  Tests show that it
works nicely.

What do people think, notably lightdm maintainers?

Samuel