So, after recompiling and upgrading the c compiler (which I needed to do anyway) to 5.3.0 gnome now works again -- yay. I have no idea as to what was the problem, which is scary in a certain sense, but I will be glad its working and go on maybe to actually use it!
Thanks everyone. On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 00:30:07 -0400, Luke Yelavich wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 11:50:15AM AEDT, John Covici wrote: > > Its firefox and I tried gnome terminal, so I am not sure whether they > > are gtk2 or 3. > > Firefox is GTK 2, GNOME terminal is GTK 3. At least so far as I know, > Gentoo's firefox may be using GTK 3, although I doubt it. > > > And to my horror, I can't get into the orca preference at all. > > Where are you trying to access Orca's preferences from? Or in other words, > what currently has focus when you attempt to press Orca plus insert? > > Luke -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list