solved: how to get Orca to speak in lightdm

[Milton]

Hi all,

Thanks to Rob for helping me out and also thanks to B.H.  I'm an end 
user and happy to learn by the instructions I get.
Milton

Op 30-04-15 om 10:50 schreef Rob Whyte:
> Hi,
> You can make sure your /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf looks like this:
>
>
> [SeatDefaults]
> greeter-session=unity-greeter
> user-session=ubuntu
>
>
> Good luck
> Cheers
> Rob
>
> On 30/04/15 16:45, Milton wrote:
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> Thanks for the instructions. It shows that my current display manager
>> is lightdm. After I did sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm but still I got
>> a login screen without sound. Even the sound of the drums. I try by
>> pressing Ctrl_S and Alt_Super_S and Ctrl_Super_S without success.
>> somebody told me to set unity greeter as the default but I don't know
>> how.
>> Milton
>>
>> Op 29-04-15 om 11:29 schreef Rob Whyte:
>>> Hi,
>>> first check to see what your current display manager is.
>>>
>>> type:
>>> cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
>>>
>>> Note the capital X in the above command.
>>> If anything other than /usr/sbin/lightdm is printed that is your
>>> problem.
>>> If so try:
>>>    sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
>>> arrow down to lightdm if there are other choices and push enter.
>>> Then next time you start your machine you should be using lightdm.
>>>
>>> Good luck
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>> Rob Whyte
>>>
>>> On 29/04/15 18:02, Milton wrote:
>>>> HI B.H.
>>>> dpkg -l|grep lxdm gave no results.
>>>> To make sure I did
>>>> sudo apt-get purge lubuntu-desktop
>>>> and reinstall ubuntu-desktop
>>>> lightdm is still installed and again I did
>>>> sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
>>>> But still no talking login screen. I set my laptop to automatically
>>>> login so when my wife wants to use her account I then change for
>>>> another user in de system menu.
>>>> Milton
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Op 28-04-15 om 10:13 schreef B. Henry:
>>>>> I almost nevr install via the software center, so do not know
>>>>> commands for checking dependencies from there.
>>>>> I'd make sure that I removed the extra packages . In a terminal or
>>>>> console run apt-cache depends lubuntu-desktop or what ever the
>>>>> original thing
>>>>> you installed was called. You can pipe the output to a textfile for
>>>>> later use.
>>>>> Then see if you still have any of those deps installed, but as far as
>>>>> I know what you want to get rid of is  lxdm.
>>>>> dpkg -l|grep lxdm
>>>>> and see if it returns anything II means that a given pkg is installed.
>>>>> sudo apt-get purge for anything lubuntu specific to remove...
>>>>> Then reconfigure lightdm. Actually, it may have been removed as a
>>>>> conflicting package when you installed lubuntu stuff, so use dpkg -l
>>>>> to see if you
>>>>> have it still, and if not reinstall it. I hope nothing else required
>>>>> by  a standard unity install was removed.
>>>>> It's worth checking log files to see exactly what was done if you
>>>>> still have trouble.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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