Hello Al, Le 19/12/2017 à 00:00, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > Hi, Didier. Thanks for writing back. > > It looks like I do not have lightdm here but gdm3, in case that gives you any other ideas for me. > > I tried alt plus f1, but it does the same as the "windows" or "super" key, bringing me in or out of where to type part or all of a program name. I do go into the terminal that way from time to time, but much prefer Speakup for console work. > > Again, much appreciated. > > Al If you prefer to work only on the console try to setup Stretch to login in console or text mode rather that launching gdm3 then. Unfortunately I don't know how to do that on Debian, but hopefully someone can tell you that. Greetings, Didier > > On 12/18/2017 05:31 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: >> Hello Al, Didier Spaier here. >> >> Le 17/12/2017 à 18:26, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : >>> Greetings! >>> >>> I ran into some problems when I upgraded from jessie to stretch this fall. I'd like to fix these two especially without having to reinstall. >>> >>> First, when I used jessie, Orca spoke at login time. Now, it doesn't. I guess when to do it, and then I get a message from Orca like "screen reader on, 17 pushbutton." (I guess this last thing is supposed to be a "feature," since I also got it on the stretch live CD, but I don't know what it's good for.) For this problem, what can I change to get back my spoken login prompt? >>> >>> Second, after I've hit ENTER on this "pushbutton," I can do my usual press of the Windows key and run firefox or whatever. However, if I go to another terminal to use speakup, for example, tty1 no longer works--or, at least, I have to log in there again. Typically, tty2 or sometimes another one becomes my graphical terminal. I end up minus a terminal. Does anyone know if this is fixable? >>> >>> I've tried using Google and the Debian site itself for direction, but so far have found nothing. >>> >>> Also, this is an Intel x86-64 machine, in case it matters. >>> >>> Thanks for any help, or for pointers to information. >>> >>> Al >> >> I cant' help much =, as I am not a Debian user. >> >> However, my guess is that the "pushbutton" message comes from the lightdm graphical login manager using orca, so it is launched at started. >> Still guessing, in the previous version instead at startup you logged in a tty and had speech with speakup. >> >> When you hit ENTER on "pushbutton" lightdm opens a graphical session and in this environment there is no ttys but terminals for X instead. >> >> Try then to press Alt+F1. Hopefully this will bring up the menu of the graphical environment. Navigating in this menu with the arrow keys you should find a terminal. Just start it, it should speak using Orca. >> >> I could give more hints if I knew in which graphical environment lightdm (if it is indeed lightdm) drops you. >> >> Greetings, >> >> Didier >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blinux-list mailing list >> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list