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1orca(1)                     General Commands Manual                    orca(1)
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NAME

6       orca - a screen reader / magnifier
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SYNOPSIS

9       orca [option...]
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DESCRIPTION

12       orca  is  a  screen reader for people with visual impairments, and pro‐
13       vides alternative access to the desktop by making use of speech synthe‐
14       sis, braille, and magnification  support on the platform.
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16       In  addition,  orca  only provides access to applications/toolkits that
17       support the assistive technology service  provide  interface  (AT-SPI),
18       which include GTK, Mozilla, Firefox, Evolution, OpenOffice, StarOffice,
19       Java/Swing, etc.
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21       WARNING: suspending orca, e.g. by pressing Control-Z,  from  an  AT-SPI
22       enabled  shell  (such  as gnome-terminal), can also suspend the desktop
23       until Orca is killed.
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OPTIONS

26       -s, --gui-setup, --setup
27              When starting orca, bring up the GUI configuration dialog.
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29       -t, --text-setup
30              When starting orca, initiate the text-based configuration.
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32       -n, --no-setup
33              When starting orca, force the application to be started  without
34              configuration, even though it might have needed it. This is use‐
35              ful when starting orca via something like gdm.
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37       -u dirname
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39       --user-prefs-dir=dirname
40              When starting orca, use dirname as an  alternate  directory  for
41              the user preferences.
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43       -e speech|braille|braille-monitor|magnifier|main-window
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45       --enable=speech|braille|braille-monitor|magnifier|main-window
46              When starting orca, force the enabling of the supplied options.
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48       -d speech|braille|braille-monitor|magnifier|main-window
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51              When starting orca, force the disabling of the supplied options.
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53       -?, -h, --help
54              Show the help message of this release of the orca program.
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56       -l, --list-apps
57              Prints  the  names  of  all  the currently running applications.
58              This is used primarily for debugging purposes to see if orca can
59              talk  to the accessibility infrastructure.  Note that if orca is
60              already running, this will not kill the other orca process.   It
61              will  just list the currently running applications, and you will
62              see orca listed twice: once for the existing orca and  once  for
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65       --debug
66              Enables  debug  output  for orca and sends all debug output to a
67              file with a name of the form 'debug-YYYY-MM-DD-HH:MM:SS.out'  in
68              the  current directory.  The YYYY-MM-DD-HH:MM:SS portion will be
69              replaced with the current date and time.
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71       --debug-file=filename
72              Enables debug output for orca and sends all debug output to  the
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75       -v, --version
76              Return the orca version number.
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78       -q, --quit
79              Quit orca.
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AUTHOR

82       orca development is a community effort led by the Sun Microsystems Inc.
83       Accessibility Program Office.
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