It's been a while since I've configured ORca and friends since I haven't upgraded in a while, but here goes. While I don't use Arch on this laptop, this Xinitrc that I use to get this going will probably help: export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/gnome/share export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/opt/gnome/etc/xdg export PYTHONPATH=/opt/gnome/lib64/python2.6/site-packages:/opt/gnome/lib/python2.6/site-packages:/opt/gnome/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0 exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session You may have to modify paths and things a bit from the above, but assuming you have stuff in /opt it should work. As for Orca, if I recall I first ran orca -t, and selected the option to have it run at startup. Hope this helps somewhat. On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:01:06PM -0500, Christopher Moore wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to run gnome using startx rather than gdm on arch linux. > Does anyone have an example of a .xinitrc file to get me started? > I can get into gnome, but my environment variables such as $PATH > aren't set because I can't start orca with > altl+f2 orca (enter). > > Thanks for any help. > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- Igor -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.