Re: dogtail-devel Using Dogtail over remote X connection or VNC

[Zack Cerza <zcerza redhat com>]

Alexander Todorov wrote:
> Hello,
> is Dogtail able to work with applications that are statred from a remote 
> host and displayed on the local one?
>   
It's not something I've played with much, but the times I've tried it I 
couldn't get it to work.

> I tried the following and it didn't work:
> client:
> export DISPLAY=server:1.0
> gedit
>
>
> server:
> gedit window shows up.
> then tried the gedit-utf8 example - didn't work.
> Started AT-SPI browser but it does not detect gedit.
> A red dot with message "broken node" appeared in AT-SPI browser after 
> clicking several times refresh, but I can not reproduce it again.
>
> The server is a normal desktop workstation, running GNOME at the moment 
> of test.
>
>
> Do such features exist at the moment? I will want to start an 
> application, display it on a remote host and run dogtail tests from the 
> remote host.
>
> I would suppose this is not a feature of Dogtail but a feature of the AT 
> library. I am correct?
>   
You're correct; dogtail being able to work with remote applications 
would depend on AT-SPI being able to do so. That said, I can't guarantee 
that dogtail would "just work" even if that were the case. It certainly 
may, but we won't know until we know how to get AT-SPI to cooperate.

Zack

> Any help or hints are welcome.
> Thanks to all.
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