How do I permanently disable the GNOME screen reader (Orca) on Debian Wheezy, without breaking GNOME?I'm running Xfce.Things I have tried, or looked at:I found the command gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications screen-reader-enabled false on one site, and if I execute it in a terminal it seems to be respected (I get a spoken goodbye and subsequently setting it to true does not appear to do anything) but the next time I log in welcome to Orca is spoken again.I edited /etc/xdg/autostart/orca-autostart.desktop to set NoDisplay=false but it still doesn't show up in Session and Startup under Application Autostart.I had a look in dconf-editor which faithfully reports that the screen-reader-enabled value is set to false even on login to a new session. However, it still gets launched.Another suggestion I saw was to use apt-get to remove the gnome-orca package entirely, but since gnome depends on gnome-orca, that would remove all of GNOME, which I do not want.
How to permanently disable Orca on Debian Wheezy?
gnome;debian
You can just get rid of the autostart file in /etc:rm /etc/xdg/autostart/orca-autostart.desktopought to prevent it from starting. Files in /etc are for the administrator to edit or remove as he/she pleases, so this should not cause issues (other than, of course, any caused by orca not running).Alternatively, you could uninstall the gnome meta-package, but keep all it dependencies except for orca. Though, on upgrade, you may not wind up with a full GNOME install if GNOME adds additional packages.