Re: [orca-list] trouble running Orca

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> > You might try running the following via Alt+F2 to see what happens:
> >
> >    python -c "import gtk; gtk.gdk.display_get_default()"
> 
> Thanks; that helped.  The problem had nothing to do with Orca.  I had 
> upgraded Python to 2.5 without recompiling some modules (Gentoo didn't 
> stop me frolm doing this), and it couldn't find cairo because it was 
> compiled for 2.4 but not 2.5.  I had run into similar problems before.

OK, phew.  Mucking around with the different Python versions, especially
when you're building Python, can get screwy.

> Now I'm running into another problem where it starts and says "Welcome to 
> Orca!" via eSpeak but won't say anything else.  If I stop X, then it 
> starts to say something else, so I think that it is a gnome-speech/eSpeak 
> problem.

Very odd.  Are you a braille user?  If so, does the braille display
update?

> I also see "anykey" printed to the console repeatedly, but I'm not sure 
> where this is coming from.

This is odd.  I'm pretty sure it's nowhere in the Orca sources.

Will