Questions on ArchLinux for the blind

[Cleverson Casarin Uliana]

Thank you Zack for all the instructions below. I'll do it when time 
enough arrives.

Cheers,
Cleverson

Em 21/3/2010 17:05, Zachary Kline escreveu:
> Cleverson Casarin Uliana<clever92000 at yahoo.com.br>  writes:
>
>>
>> 1. After installing and configuring the base system, is it possible to
>> set up the x server plus Gnome and setting up Orca without sighted
>> assistance? There are instructions in the beginners guide to install a
>> graphical environment, but no instructions for setting up Orca. Could
>> you write down such steps, in case it is accessible to do?
> I'll answer this as best I can.  It's been a while since I did it, so I
> may have forgotten a point or two.
> The first thing to do is follow the standard instructions for setting up
> a graphical desktop on the wiki.  They're good and will take you far.
> Once you've got them taken care of, just "pacman -S orca" as root and "orca
> -t" as the user you'll be doing your GUI stuff with.  Run startx, and if
> you've set up .xinitrc properly (instructions on the wiki) Orca should
> come up as usual.
> One thing to be aware of is that the orca package in the repository
> isn't as updated as it could be.  Steve Holmes has created a package for
> orca-git in the AUR, which you might want to look into once you're
> familiar with Arch.  You don't need to repeat the orca setup steps again
> if you should decide to switch to that.
> I hope this helps.  Feel free to ask any more specific questions, I'll
> do my best to answer them.
> Best,
> Zack.
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