You can get the uid of an account with sudo grep -i username /etc/passwd. Fields are separated by colons and the third field will hava a number in it and that number is the uid of the username you gave grep when checking the /etc/passwd file. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Sat, 1 Apr 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > > On 1/4/23 12:47, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > > Not sure how I can check if at-spi and orca are running as, in > > addition to not getting speech in the GUI, I'm also apparently locked > > from switching to a tty that's at the console, which is also an issue > > since the work flow I'm used to is using tty switching to do web stuff > > in the GUI and everything else in the console, though I thought the > > inability to switch ttys was rather irrelevant if I'm not getting > > speech in the GUI to begin with, though I suppose it is more relevant > > than initially thought since I hadn't considered trying to diagnose > > the running xsession from the console... > > You'll need to solve that problem in any case. > > To diagnose, your best option under the circumstances is probably an ssh > session from another machine. > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list