Hi, Just for completeness sake ... Pulseaudio is not active on my system. So, getting GDM to speak does not require pulseaudio. It may work with pulse, I wouldn't know. But, it definitely isn't a prerequisite. Janina Kyle writes: > Yes, these are indeed the steps I took to make the screen reader start: > alt-control-tab, right arrow once, down arrow 4 times, enter and reboot. > I had only tested them on Arch, but I think it's a gnome-shell thing, so > it should work on any distro with gnome-shell 3.6, and may work on > earlier versions as well. I have read that there may be a hotkey option > coming in the future, but some funky things with pulseaudio will have to > be worked out also, or there will be a lot of disappointments when it > doesn't work as expected. Of course I refer to the autospawn being > turned off by default, which causes a copy of /etc/pulse/client.conf to > need to be copied to /var/lib/gdm/.config/pulse/client.conf and > autospawn to need to be enabled in GDM's copy just to make that talking > login screen work properly. I'm sure turning autospawn off by default > fixed some things for other users, but it sure did make things more > difficult for those of us who need Orca at the login screen. Of course > this won't be a problem at all for users who disable pulseaudio > systemwide, as speech should work in gdm the same as it does on the desktop. > ~Kyle > http://kyle.tk/ > -- > "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" > Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie" > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina at rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
