Some questions about Arch Linux

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Mon Apr 19 11:02:20 UTC 2021


11.04.2021 17:57, Linux for blind general discussion пишет:
> Hello everyone,
>
hello.
>
> Since we're kind of in the subject anyways, let me ask another 
> question, totally unrelated, but still about Arch:
>
> I've installed the system, and everything works fine, but not 
> accessibility, not as it worked in Ubuntu and Fedora at least.
>
> When I typed in the terminal
>
> export ACCESSIBILITY_ENABLED=1
>
> all in caps eccept export, and I tried to start google-chrome, nothing 
> talked.
>
which desktop environment are you using? is accessibility enabled in 
it's settings?

> One other app that didn't talk, was Signal desktop, which I managed to 
> use wonderfully on both Ubuntu and Fedora, so basically, accessibility 
> isn't working as it should be I am guessing.
>
> I also modified the .xinitrc file at /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, since 
> that's the only one which is available, and I inserted the following 
> lines at the end of the file, after installing the system:
>
>
> export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge
this isn't needed anymore.
> export GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY=1
> export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
> export QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON=1
> export ACCESSIBILITY ENABLED=1
>
> Nothing still.
>
as far as I know this file doesn't read if you not using startx program.

> Any help would be apriciated.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Francisco.
>
-- 

Sincerely, Alexander.




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