Sorry about that. Don't think I can help much. Unless the following is of any use ... At each round of the development cycle, i.e. the odd numbered dot releases, the GNOME people publish a "it's ready to build and break" email that includes build instructions. I think they still rely on jhbuild. There may be notes in there that might help. Janina covici at ccs.covici.com writes: > Nope, I have gentoo and can't get gdm or even startx to work properly > using gnome 3.8. > > Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote: > > > John: > > > > Is this from Fedora? > > > > Janina > > > > covici at ccs.covici.com writes: > > > Well, at least you get gdm, what I get is a message on the screen oh no > > > something has gone wrong. > > > > > > Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote: > > > > > > > One additional bit of data for the sake of completeness ... > > > > > > > > Talking GDM seems only to work the first time you access it. > > > > > > > > I do not auto start the GUI on boot, preferring the additional control > > > > over all those numerous issues that can break boots. > > > > > > > > Rather, I use > > > > > > > > systemctl start gdm > > > > > > > > To kick off my GUI when I need it. > > > > > > > > So, I now get speech the first time I do this. But, if for some reason, > > > > I need to bring down the GUI and restart it, I do NOT get talking GDM on > > > > the second time, and on any successive times through GDM. I can still > > > > login, and Orca speaks, but no speech on GDM after the first round. > > > > > > > > Wonder what that's all about? > > > > > > > > Janina > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > > > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > -- > > > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > > > How do > > > you spend it? > > > > > > John Covici > > > covici at ccs.covici.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > How do > you spend it? > > John Covici > covici at ccs.covici.com > _______________________________________________ > 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/
