I think in debian 7, they install the gnome-session-fallback package and
have the user created during the install default to the gnome classic
desktop at login. I think they do this if you ask for speech during the
install. But I'm just speculating because I have never not asked for
speech during the install. I have checked some other machines that I did
not set up and they don't have the gnome-session-fallback package.
The last time I tried debian 8 (jessie), none of this worked out of the
box. I had to manually install gdm3 and gnome-session-fallback which in
turn uninstalled a whole bunch of things and broke several others. I'm
sure there is a way to make it work but pretty soon I figured I'd just
wait until thay got it ironed out.
I have done the kind of install Tyler is asking about but it was maybe 6
months ago and my memory is a little vague. But I am pretty sure you
have to install orca with 'apt-get install gnome-orca'. That will
install orca, gnome, and gdm3 as dependencies. You also have to install
gnome-session-fallback and then select the gnome classic desktop when
you log in.
The people on the orca list would be able to answer these questions with
a lot more certainty than I can.
On 11/30/2014 02:03 PM, Adam Myrow wrote:
accessible Gnome setup, complete with the old-style start menu out of
the box. I'm not sure what "magic" the installer did to accomplish this.
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, John G. Heim wrote:
The problem you describe with orca just reading the menus and nothing
else sounds like what you get if you do not install the
gnome-session-fallback package. I think if you installgnome-orca and
gnome-session-fallback, it will basically work. Last time I tried
something like this, it took me a while to do all the tweaks you need
to do to get an accessible system. This is what makes distros like
vinux and sonar so valuable.
On 11/29/2014 03:12 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
spHello all,
I have a debian system which I've been using for a while with emacs. I"m
managing to figure out most stuff on the CLI, but I'd really like
XWindows to fall back on for a messenger.
So I had a few questions, hopefully mostly related.
1. Any good solutions for installing gnome, assuming that's only what
debian works with? I can grab it from packages, but there are a lot of
versions. Is there a recommended dummy package?
2. Any good ideas for orca? Last time I installed gnome, I had no
desktop from what I could tell and orca could only work on the start
menu.
3. Can I disable it from running at login so I just need to type startx?
How do people handle espeakup at that point, or even speakup?
Thanks,
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