[arch-general] Arch and Gnome 3problems
Hi all on this list, First, I really apologize if this is off list, but I had trouble registering on the forum's. But OK, now to my problem. I used Gnome in the passed, v2.30 with no issues and I had to do a reinstall of my system and now I am running the latest Arch. However, Gnome seems to be working fine, I think, but I am having problems when I try to use Orca, the screen reader for Gnome. I am visually impaired so I rely on speech and or braille. Here is a short summery of what I did after the installation of Arch was complete I added my user and added it to some of the groups, like audio,video,storage,optical, etc. Then, I did: pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-utils xorg-server-utils pacman -S xf86-video-ati pacman -S gnome gnome-extra pacman -S xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse rc.d start dbus pacman -R gnome-shell gnome-screensaver /etc/rc.d/gdm start Isn't this correct for getting Gnome up and running? Many thanks for any help, Christian
I dont see why you would want to remove the gnome-shell package, as it is a main part of the new gnome 3. Also xf86-input-keyboard and -mouse are long deprecated now days you only xf86-input-evdev and and latop users need xf86-input-synaptics too. If I remeber right the screen reader wanst working that well in gnome 3, but that might have been fixed in 3.2. Instead of removing the shell you should make gnome use the fallback mode if the new gnome-shell is bringing some problems for you.
Hi, But isn't it Gnome 3.2 that now comes with Arch? Many thanks, Christian On 2011-10-23 at 19:59 Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote:
I dont see why you would want to remove the gnome-shell package, as it is a main part of the new gnome 3.
Also xf86-input-keyboard and -mouse are long deprecated now days you only xf86-input-evdev and and latop users need xf86-input-synaptics too.
If I remeber right the screen reader wanst working that well in gnome 3, but that might have been fixed in 3.2.
Instead of removing the shell you should make gnome use the fallback mode if the new gnome-shell is bringing some problems for you.
Yes gnome is version 3.2.1 at the moment and that is what we have in the repos.
Hi, OK, many thanks so that is what I get when I install it using pacman. But its strange the problems I am having. But ok, thanks for your help! Christian On 2011-10-24 at 01:16 Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote:
Yes gnome is version 3.2.1 at the moment and that is what we have in the repos.
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Christian
But its strange the problems I am having.
Hello there, if you're having trouble with the accessibility routines provided by the GNOME project, I'd like to direct you to upstream. [1] is the gnome-accessibility-list main page, where also archives are linked. Maybe there are other users and especially developers who could benefit from your experience, and for them you could dig into this problem a bit further, eg. elaborate on that "strange" behavior on said mailing list. Myself, I'd always like to help, but I cannot test these things myself further than compare with what the visual state machine gives me, though. cheers! mar77i [1] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
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Christian
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Jesse Juhani Jaara
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Martti Kühne