Thanks for your message. I do understand the dangers involved in enabling and using the root user. And, your diagnosis of the VoiceOver issue was spot on. Several days ago, I got VoiceOver to come on, and found myself in something called "dictation im". Using the mouse, via the keyboard, I was able to get the focus back to the keychain dialog. For a few minutes though, I was uncertain as to how to proceed. It's all good now!
You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding Sent from my Mac Book Pro richr...@gmail.com On May 21, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Previous cautions aside, although important, one thing that might be going on > is that a Keychain dialog is popping up that is stopping your ability to > activate VO, press Escape a few times to see if that dialog will go away then > try cmd-f5 or fn-cmd-f5 to get VO to start. The Root user has its uses, but > as mentioned by Chris and Chris, it should only be enabled if you really need > it. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2013-05-20, at 3:22 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > >> In a similar vein, the few times I ever needed root access was in the >> terminal app to run certain commands. I never needed to log into the system >> as root. Would be interesting to know what you want to do. >> >> CB >> >> On 5/19/13 1:40 PM, Chris Gilland wrote: >>> Let's get a few things straight. >>> >>> 1. In the first place, aside what you say to appreciate the differences, >>> what exactly were you trying to do that required root access, as that is >>> normally strongly discouraged unless it be a very last resort. >>> >>> 2. Summarize for me the process that you took to enable the root account, >>> as depending on how you did it... (there are several ways...) that could >>> explain why Voiceover isn't working. >>> >>> Chris. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Richard Ring >>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 7:04 PM >>> Subject: Root User Issue >>> >>>> Although one can accomplish most anything that is truly necessary on the >>>> Mac as an administrative user, in order to fully appreciate the >>>> difference between an administrative user and a root user, I have >>>> enabled the root user. Unfortunately, when I log in as the root user, I >>>> cannot turn VoiceOver on with command f5 as I might expect. When I issue >>>> this command, I continue to have a silent computer. >>>> Any ideas as to what might be causing this problem would be greatly >>>> appreciated. >>> >>> You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of >>> Fielding >>> Sent from my Mac Book Pro >>> richr...@gmail.com >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
