Re: [orca-list] Emacs and Orca again

["Bart Bunting" <bart ursys com au>]

Hi,

The difference is that you are running emacs on a console tty.

What I am talking about is running emacs on the gnome desktop.

The reason for wanting to do this is so that I can cut and paste into my
emacs buffers.

I frequently cut and paste between windows in vmware or virtualbox and my
emacs session.

The alternative is to use files to transfer the data but this is
non-efficient.

I think you would find that if you ran emacs and exported the display so
that the emacs window appears on the gnome desktop that strange things would
start to happen.

Thanks for testing.

Bart


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
Behalf Of Jason White
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 2:49 PM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Emacs and Orca again

Bart Bunting <bart ursys com au> wrote:
 
> Previously I had managed to get them to play together by starting emacs
from
> the console and exporting the DISPLAY variable.  For reasons unknown to me
> this used to work around the issue of hangs in orca when emacs was
started.

I have just conducted the following test with Emacs 23.1, Orca 2.27.5 and
Gnome 2.26, all as packaged by Debian.

1. Started Gnome and Orca by running startx from a console. Orca was
configured to use my braille display as well as ESpeak via Gnome-Speech.

2. Once Orca was running, I switched to another virtual console and ran
Emacs.
This also started emacspeak, configured to use a DECTALK Express serial
synthesizer, which all worked fine.  BRLTTY handled the braille display
properly, as is usual, when I switched over to the console.

3. I then switched back to my X session with alt-F7 and continued working
with
Orca by reading items on the desktop, again with no problems for either the
braille or the speech output.

Conclusion: I can't reproduce your problem. What are the salient differences
between your environment and mine that explain why it doesn't work for you?

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