Orca on the live CD of September 29

Jude DaShiell jdashiel at shellworld.net
Sun Sep 30 22:36:45 BST 2007


Almost certainly a password was set up for the user account and that's 
what will need to be used with sudo to run some of that stuff.  When a 
ubuntu install happens if a root password isn't set and root isn't enabled 
then a user password will be needed or the system is as insecure as dos.



On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Mike Reiser wrote:

> On the live cd I'm guessing there's no password so I guess you do the same 
> stuff but without the password?
>
> Mike
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
> To: "Simon Bienlein" <s.bienlein at gmx.de>
> Cc: "ubuntu-accessibility" <Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 4:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Orca on the live CD of September 29
>
>
>>  You first have to set orca up to work.  After you next log in, control-f2
>>  and type sudo gnome-terminal <cr>.  If you get asked for password key it
>>  in.  Then type orca -t <cr>.  This is what to type to set orca up.
>> 
>> 
>>
>>  On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Simon Bienlein wrote:
>> 
>> >  Hello everyone,
>> > 
>> >  When I start the live CD of September 29, I am able to call the "run
>> >  dialogue" via Alt+F2. When orca is entered here, there is no screen
>> >  output. Is there anyone on this list whose Orca actually works on the
>> >  live CD?
>> > 
>> >  BrlTTY does not cause any problems. The Braille display is being
>> >  recognized and I am able to smoothly work with it on the console
>> >  (Strg+Alt+F1). When I want to configure orca in the text modus and enter
>> >  "orca -t", I receive a couple of error messages, but the set-up is not
>> >  being started:
>> > 
>> >  $ orca -t
>> >  /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72:
>> >  GtkWarning: could not open display
>> >  warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
>> >  Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 56, in
>> >  <module>
>> >     import httpserver
>> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/httpserver.py", line 36,
>> >  in <module>
>> >     import speech
>> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/speech.py", line 35, in
>> >  <module>
>> >     import keynames
>> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/keynames.py", line 29, in
>> >  <module>
>> >     import chnames
>> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/chnames.py", line 116
>> >  SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file
>> >  /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/chnames.py on line 116, but no
>> >  encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for
>> >  details
>> > 
>> >  Thanks in advance for your hints.
>> > 
>> >  Simon
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
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