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# Cthulhu Development Guide
This document applies to the Cthulhu fork maintained by Storm Dragon.
Cthulhu is forked from Orca; prior Orca maintainers and contributors are part
of the upstream history, but they are not current maintainers of this fork.
## Local Development Build
To develop Cthulhu without overwriting your system installation, use the provided build scripts:

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# Cthulhu Remote Controller (D-Bus Interface)
This documentation covers the Cthulhu fork maintained by Storm Dragon.
Cthulhu is forked from Orca; former Orca maintainers and contributors are part
of the project's upstream history, but they are not current maintainers of
this fork.
> **⚠️⚠️ WORK IN PROGRESS**: This D-Bus interface is brand new and not yet feature complete.
Low-risk feature additions will continue to be made. The API may be
modified beyond bug fixes in future versions based on feedback from consumers of this support.

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## Note
Cthulhu is a fork of the Orca screen reader. Project home: https://git.stormux.org/storm/cthulhu. Cthulhu is currently a supplemental screen reader that fills a nitch for some advanced users. E.g. some older QT based programs may work with Cthulhu, and if you use certain window managers like i3, Mozilla applications like Firefox and Thunderbird may work better.
Cthulhu is a fork of the Orca screen reader. Project home: https://git.stormux.org/storm/cthulhu. Cthulhu is currently a supplemental screen reader that fills a niche for some advanced users. For example, some older Qt-based programs may work with Cthulhu, and if you use certain window managers like i3, Mozilla applications like Firefox and Thunderbird may work better.
## Current Maintenance
Cthulhu is currently maintained by Storm Dragon.
Current contributors called out in this fork's documentation:
- Hunter Joziak
- Harley Richardson (`destructatron`)
## Project History
Cthulhu is forked from Orca and builds on many years of upstream work by the Orca community, including former maintainers and contributors such as Joanmarie Diggs and others.
Those upstream maintainers and contributors are part of the project's history, but they are not current maintainers of this fork unless explicitly noted elsewhere.
## Introduction

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# Cthulhu Remote Controller - Available Commands
This documentation covers the Cthulhu fork maintained by Storm Dragon.
Cthulhu is forked from Orca; former Orca maintainers and contributors are part
of the project's upstream history, but they are not current maintainers of
this fork.
This document lists the currently available D-Bus commands in Cthulhu's Remote Controller interface.
> **Note**: This is a work-in-progress. As more modules are exposed via D-Bus, this document will be expanded. Eventually this will be auto-generated using `tools/generate_dbus_documentation.py`.

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<programming-language>Python</programming-language>
<maintainer>
<foaf:Person>
<foaf:name>Joanmarie Diggs</foaf:name>
<foaf:mbox rdf:resource="mailto:jdiggs@igalia.com" />
<gnome:userid>joanied</gnome:userid>
</foaf:Person>
</maintainer>
<maintainer>
<foaf:Person>
<foaf:name>Federico Mena Quintero</foaf:name>
<foaf:mbox rdf:resource="mailto:federico@gnome.org" />
<gnome:userid>federico</gnome:userid>
<foaf:name>Storm Dragon</foaf:name>
<foaf:mbox rdf:resource="mailto:storm_dragon@stormux.org" />
</foaf:Person>
</maintainer>
</Project>

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Cthulhu is a screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired,
forked from Orca. It provides access to applications and toolkits that support
the AT-SPI (e.g., the GNOME desktop).
the AT-SPI (e.g., GNOME and other Linux desktop environments).
This fork is currently maintained by Storm Dragon. It builds on upstream Orca
work, but former Orca maintainers and contributors are not current maintainers
of this fork.
This screen reader helps users navigate their desktop environment and applications
through speech synthesis and braille output.
After installation, you can start Cthulhu through the GNOME desktop environment
After installation, you can start Cthulhu through your desktop environment
or by running 'cthulhu' from the command line.
DEPENDENCIES:

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.\" along with this; if not write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\" 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301 USA
'\"
.TH cthulhu 1 "20 September 2013" "GNOME"
.TH cthulhu 1 "10 April 2026" "Stormux"
.SH NAME
cthulhu \- a scriptable screen reader
.SH SYNOPSIS
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it provides alternative access to the desktop by using speech synthesis and braille.
.P
.B cthulhu
is maintained in this fork by Storm Dragon. It is forked from Orca and builds
on upstream work by former Orca maintainers and contributors, who are part of
the project's history but are not current maintainers of this fork.
.P
.B cthulhu
works with applications and toolkits that support
the Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (AT-SPI), which
is the primary assistive technology infrastructure for Linux and
Solaris. Applications and toolkits supporting the AT-SPI include the
GNOME Gtk+ toolkit, the Java platform's Swing toolkit, LibreOffice,
Gecko, and WebKitGtk. AT-SPI support for the KDE Qt toolkit is being
pursued.
Gecko, WebKitGtk, and the KDE Qt toolkit.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-s, --setup
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in laptop keyboard layout.
.B Cthulhu
uses default GNOME keyboard shortcuts to navigate the desktop and interact with various applications. The flat review commands provide an alternative method of interaction in certain inaccessible applications. It should not be confused with flat review functionality provided by other screen readers.
uses its configured keyboard shortcuts to navigate the desktop and interact with various applications. The flat review commands provide an alternative method of interaction in certain inaccessible applications. It should not be confused with flat review functionality provided by other screen readers.
.SH Desktop Mode