hi there, my name is majid hussain, I am blind. I have downloaded the fedora mate spin and am trying to launch orca the screen reader from the live iso. via mate's alt plus f2 shortcut. orca is not running however. could someone tell me if orca has been added to the latest fedora 35 mate spin iso? I am able to launch mate-terminal via alt plus f2 and test audio output via testing espeak-ng which works. is there a place to get the list of packages that are contained in fedora mate iso?
thank you for your assistence in advance. Majid
On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 12:15:54 +0100 majid hussain mhussaincov93@gmx.com wrote:
hi there, my name is majid hussain, I am blind. I have downloaded the fedora mate spin and am trying to launch orca the screen reader from the live iso. via mate's alt plus f2 shortcut. orca is not running however. could someone tell me if orca has been added to the latest fedora 35 mate spin iso? I am able to launch mate-terminal via alt plus f2 and test audio output via testing espeak-ng which works. is there a place to get the list of packages that are contained in fedora mate iso?
You can find them from the command line in the alt-F2 terminal by running
rpm -qa | less
or
rpm -qa | grep -i orca
where the | is a pipe symbol that sends the output to the either the grep command so it will look for orca in the package list, or less pager so it doesn't just scroll by really fast and get lost. q will exit the less pager.
thank you for your assistence in advance.
I am almost completely ignorant in this area, but I think that only the Gnome desktop comes with orca already installed in Fedora. I found a web page, from several years ago, that seems to confirm this. To quote, " although with fedora you'd have to first install the workstation image which is gnome and then install mate afterwards ..." Maybe someone more knowledgeable will correct me if I am wrong.
I think you will have to install orca using this command if you do not first install gnome. In a terminal, which you already have,
dnf install orca
I am not familiar enough to know whether it will ask for sudo or root or just run the command. I think that the user is automatically granted root privileges in the ISO system, so it shouldn't ask for sudo or root password. If it does, I would try just hitting enter. It will then ask for confirmation, and if granted, install orca. This is completely temporary, as orca will go away when you log out. But you can then run it.
I found a recommendation in the Arch documentation for Mate that before starting Mate, and after installing orca, you should run the command
gsettings set org.mate.interface accessibility true
as a user. So, before switching back to alt-F1, run the above after you have installed orca.
hey there stan sir,
I was trying out the spin in virt-manager's ui.
your information was of use.
i've managed to install f35 mate spin, orca was on the image.
my thank you for your help sir stan.
and everyone who assisted.
thank you,
Majid Hussain
On 1/3/22 20:33, stan via users wrote:
On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 12:15:54 +0100 majid hussain mhussaincov93@gmx.com wrote:
hi there, my name is majid hussain, I am blind. I have downloaded the fedora mate spin and am trying to launch orca the screen reader from the live iso. via mate's alt plus f2 shortcut. orca is not running however. could someone tell me if orca has been added to the latest fedora 35 mate spin iso? I am able to launch mate-terminal via alt plus f2 and test audio output via testing espeak-ng which works. is there a place to get the list of packages that are contained in fedora mate iso?
You can find them from the command line in the alt-F2 terminal by running
rpm -qa | less
or
rpm -qa | grep -i orca
where the | is a pipe symbol that sends the output to the either the grep command so it will look for orca in the package list, or less pager so it doesn't just scroll by really fast and get lost. q will exit the less pager.
thank you for your assistence in advance.
I am almost completely ignorant in this area, but I think that only the Gnome desktop comes with orca already installed in Fedora. I found a web page, from several years ago, that seems to confirm this. To quote, " although with fedora you'd have to first install the workstation image which is gnome and then install mate afterwards ..." Maybe someone more knowledgeable will correct me if I am wrong.
I think you will have to install orca using this command if you do not first install gnome. In a terminal, which you already have,
dnf install orca
I am not familiar enough to know whether it will ask for sudo or root or just run the command. I think that the user is automatically granted root privileges in the ISO system, so it shouldn't ask for sudo or root password. If it does, I would try just hitting enter. It will then ask for confirmation, and if granted, install orca. This is completely temporary, as orca will go away when you log out. But you can then run it.
I found a recommendation in the Arch documentation for Mate that before starting Mate, and after installing orca, you should run the command
gsettings set org.mate.interface accessibility true
as a user. So, before switching back to alt-F1, run the above after you have installed orca. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
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