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

[Alexander Todorov <atodorov redhat com>]

Zack Cerza wrote:
> 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 got it working on Ubuntu with GNOME 2.18.0
I tried running the gedit utf8 example when gedit is exported to another 
display on the same host. No problems.

> > 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.

This issue seems to be a bug in how AT enabled applications register 
themselves with the Register. It seems to be resolved now.
These are some relevant links:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/SudoAdminAtspi
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163132

Alexander.