Solus and Chromium breaking

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Thu Jul 22 11:55:18 UTC 2021


Hello there,

Thanks for the quick update, as you called it, I'll try, although my
problem seems to differ from yours a bit.
Best regards.
Francisco.

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 8:15 AM Linux for blind general discussion <
blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:

> As a quick update. Here's what I did on Solus to get Chromium/Chrome
> based stuff working
>
>
> 1. Set the export ACCESSIBILITY_ENABLED=1 in ~/.profile
>
>
> 2. Set up the flags in .config/Brave-flags.conf or Chromium flags.conf
> or the Chrome equivalent
>
> 3.Launch browser.
>
> It works fine for me on Solus, using the Mate DE
>
> On 7/22/21 10:23 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > Hello there,
> >
> > I am having sort of the same problem here on arch: I installed the latest
> > google-chrome from the AUR, and well, no matter what I do, it doesn't
> start.
> > Does it happen to you on Solus as well?
> > For me electron apps work without a hitch though, and vanilla Chromium
> > works just fine.
> > Best regards.
> > francisco.
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 7:29 PM Linux for blind general discussion <
> > blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Just tested. That didn't do a thing. It's as if Chromium's not even
> >> showing as running within Solus. Which is amazingly odd even with the
> >> right flags. I've not tried making a flags.conf yetet (that's next on my
> >> list), but I swear there were settings I needed in config files or to
> >> export via a terminal however?
> >>
> >> On 7/21/21 7:49 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >>> When Chromium stuff breaks like that, hit Insert + H, then F2 to bring
> >> up a
> >>> GTK dialog. Doesn't matter, just close it. Something breaks with focus
> >> when
> >>> stuff like that happens.
> >>> Devin Prater
> >>> r.d.t.prater at gmail.com
> >>> gemini://tilde.pink/~devinprater/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:03 PM Linux for blind general discussion <
> >>> blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> So, grabbed Solus 4.3 and ran into a few weird oddities with Mate.
> >>>> Nothing insanely deal breaking, bar one or two things...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 1. For some reaso, the Mate DE doesn't have the orca shortcut set.
> This
> >>>> isn't really an issue since alt+f2 and Orca takes care of it.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> However...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 2. Chromium doesn't seem to respect flags set. And it breaks the
> >>>> installed system to the point where it's locked up when quitting a
> >>>> Chromium app
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 3. After upgrading, Firefox lost the browse/focus mde messages
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> So is it just me using Solus 4.3 here and anyone got any ideas, and no
> >>>> 'use another distro' is not a valid answer. I've already suffered one
> >>>> borked system due to Ubuntu being inane today and the terminal
> suddenly
> >>>> not being a thing mid version upgrade, so...
> >>>>
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