Re: kde-accessibility Digest, Vol 89, Issue 12

Thank you very much, Kyle.  I just followed your instructions and am
waiting for the system to come back up.  Let's see what happens.

Best regards,
Alex M
> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 16:30:44 -0400
> From: Kyle <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Kde-accessibility] Re: Testing ISO Request
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> you should be able to boot into your installation as you normally would,
> install kubuntu-desktop and then create a file as root in /etc/profile.d
> like this:
>
> sudo -i
> echo export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 >/etc/profile.d/qtaccessibility
> exit
>
> You can actually call this file anything you want, because the shell
> should read through everything in that directory on startup. At this
> point, you should be able to set your system to boot into KDE, and it
> should come up talking. If not, you can press alt-f2 and type
> /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kaccessibleapp
> tab once if I remember correctly and press the space bar. If you tab
> again and don't hear anything, just press the space bar there. At this
> point, you should be able to tab around the screen reader window and it
> should speak, at which point you can press alt-f4 and play with the system.
>
> If you decide you don't want to keep testing KDE, you can simply use
> aptitude to remove kubuntu-desktop, which should remove all the extras
> that it installed, and
> sudo rm /etc/profile.d/qtaccessibility
> or whatever you called that file. Your system should return to the state
> it was in before you installed KDE, with the acception of some dotfiles
> in your home directory, which you can keep or remove as necessary.
>
> Note: with the exception of the uninstall stuff, which I haven't done,
> this is pretty much what I did in order to get KDE talking here,
> modified so that it should work on your Ubuntu install. Your mileage may
> vary, of course, but it worked quite well for testing here. The main
> problem I found is that for some reason, I seem to have to login on kdm
> twice before KDE will start. I'm not sure why this is happening, but
> neither my gdm nor my kdm speak, so I don't know what's actually
> happening on screen as I try to login. I'm also not sure if installing
> kubuntu-desktop will make kdm your default display manager or if it
> keeps gdm as you have it. If gdm still starts, you can just leave it
> alone and switch to a text console using alt-control-f1, login and type
> sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop;sudo /etc/init.d/kdm start
> and type your password at the prompt. Do the reverse to start GNOME if
> kdm starts by default. I use a different distro here, so again, your
> mileage may vary, as I can change my default display manager on-the-fly,
> and I never did that in Ubuntu, so perhaps someone else will be able to
> tell you how to do that, and then you'll be able to have the one you
> want start on the next reboot.
> ~Kyle
>
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