Re: Orca which version of python-orbit is to be used with ?

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

Solved.
I updated the gnome-panel package and rebooted.
It looks like it is working now.
Thanks.
Willem


On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Willie Walker wrote:

> That seems to indicate that gnome-panel isn't running, and thus you're
> not going to get the applications menu (Alt+F1) or other things that the
> panel provides.
>
> You might try running gnome-panel from a terminal window to see where it
> is complaining.  At this point, however, we're getting beyond the realm
> of orca and accessibility and jumping into working with the core
> desktop.  We can try to help, but there might be more appropriate
> discussions lists for that kind of thing.
>
> Will
>
> On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 16:42 +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> > No, just the ps|fgrep process.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Willie Walker wrote:
> >
> > > This sounds like the panel(s) are not starting for some reason.  If you
> > > do a "ps -elf | grep gnome-panel", do you see any processes?
> > >
> > > Will
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 13:56 +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I took the source of the Ubuntu package of 2.14, the origional, not the
> > > > Ubuntu-modified one, and built the python module from source.
> > > > This is on Debian.
> > > > Orca now goes through the text-based setup and starts up when startx is
> > > > executed.
> > > > I used to be able to press left-control-alt-tab to jump between top panel,
> > > > desktop and botom panel. It now seem to be stuck on desktop.
> > > > I also cannot start a program by pressing alt-f2 and do not get the dialog
> > > > for entering an appliction name.
> > > > Alt-f1 used to give me a kind of a menu with applications. I do not get
> > > > this either.
> > > > I suppose It must be some incompatibility.
> > > > Any ideas?
> > > > TIA, Willem
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Willie Walker wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi Willem:
> > > > >
> > > > > You should be working with GNOME 2.14, which (I believe) includes
> > > > > PyORBit 2.14.0.  The "orbit-io-thread" stuff is needed to help prevent
> > > > > hangs, and was added in PyORBit 2.13.0, I believe.
> > > > >
> > > > > Hope this helps,
> > > > >
> > > > > Will
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 10:22 +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> > > > > > What is the full version number of the python-orbit module that is
> > > > > > compatible with the current CVS version of Orca?
> > > > > > I also get:
> > > > > > import atspi
> > > > > >    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/atspi.py", line 48, in
> > > > > > ?
> > > > > >      ORBit.CORBA.ORB_init(orb_id="orbit-io-thread")
> > > > > > TypeError: ORB_init() takes no keyword arguments
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Any ideas?
> > > > > > TIA, Willem
> > > > >
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