Hello,
Using gsettings in the command line to make Orca launch at boot time.
This is for the Mate desktop, but see later for other GTK based desktops
such as Gnome.
Settings are controlled by gsettings.
You can do this in the SSH command line to look at two settings which
control Orca and accessibility:
gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications screen-reader-enabled
gsettings get org.mate.interface accessibility
I think if only the second one is set to true, then Orca will start, but
I always set them both.
Use these commands to set them. Note that these commands may wrap in
your email client, but must be on one command line:
dbus-launch gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications
screen-reader-enabled true
dbus-launch gsettings set org.mate.interface accessibility true
The dbus-launch is needed in an SSH terminal window. If you are in a
terminal window on the Pi desktop, this will not be needed.
You can then run the first two commands again to check they have been set.
Note that each dbus-launch will start a daemon, so don't type too many
of these before logging out and in again to kill them all.
Other Desktops
You can do this:
gsettings --list-recursively | grep accessibility > res
To recursively list all settings which relate to accessibility to the
file called 'res'.
Then you can inspect to see what is in the file and what you might want
to set.
There is stuff in there about sticky keys and other accessibility stuff
not necessarily relating to blindness or VI
Mike
On 10/02/2020 16:39, Angelo T Sonnesso wrote:
I did see a pi version of Ubuntu Mate.
I have a Raspberry Pi 3b, so I don't know if I would have any luck with it,
but I will give it a try.
73 N2DYN Angelo
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VNC supports running a GUI on a remote host, ssh only supports running the
command line on a remote host.
I think the core problem here is that while Orca and dependencies can be
installed from the command line, and the Pi can be configured to launch a
desktop environment at boot from the command line, there doesn't seem to be a
convenient way of configuring Orca to start automatically when a desktop
environment launches from the command line.
Sadly, I can't offer any advice as I've never gotten Orca working on a system
that didn't come preconfigured to launch Orca when starting a graphical user
session.
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